Cattle opened the week posting strong gains and continued to push higher through Wednesday. Support came from what was deemed as a bullish Cattle Inventory
The Cattle Inventory report was friendly cattle as most categories came in below expectations. The report also showed a much slower than expected expansion pace
The Jan COF report was slightly negative cattle as although the On Feed estimate and Marketing estimate were as expected; the Placement estimate was 2%
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