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Corn
Corn (ZC)

Today's Snapshot


The Dec '26 Corn contract's settlement price climbed 09'0 (+1.95%) to 469'4 Wednesday. This increase brought it above its 50-day moving average of 467'2. Its volume increased significantly, rising from 140,081 to 237,293.

Settlement price rose in all five Benchmark Grains and Oilseeds Wednesday. The Sep '26 Chicago Wheat contract's movement from 645'0 to 677'4 (+5.04%) was the biggest increase.

Implied volatility for the Dec '26 option expiry increased 0.56 pts to 21.83%. It is now 3.69 pts above where it was at the beginning of the year. Put/call OI ratio rose from 0.53 to 0.54. That big move was quite a jolt for the Dec '26 option expiry, which had seen a maximum of 0.001 of movement over the previous two days.

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SETTLEMENT PRICE 07/15/26

469'4

DAILY CHANGE

1.95%

ZCZ6

DAILY LOW

458'6

DAILY HIGH

471'0

ZCZ6

LAST YEAR VALUE

419'6

YEAR OVER YEAR CHANGE

11.85%

ZCZ5

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