09/28/2025 Sunday Market Preview

Grains look to open steady to slightly softer on accelerating harvest and the lack of progress for Chines trade negotiations. Eyes are on how the financial markets act in response to government shutdown developments. In the Headlines There was little evidence of progress toward averting a government shutdown this weekend, only a plan for President Trump to meet on Monday with both parties’ top leaders from the House and Senate. Lawmakers mostly continued to dig in on contentions with Trump’s withholding of funds from foreign aid and healthcare programs. Democrats call it a bluff, but the Trump administration has been directing federal agencies to prepare for mass layoffs that during the last shutdown in 2018 amounted to 340,000 out of 800,000 non-military government employees being furloughed. Most USDA programs and crop reports are put on hold during a shutdown but the FSA can remain open for making payments, albeit with possibly even shorter staff and fewer open locations. Silver futures have been playing catch up to gold and are closing in on their all-time high from when the price hit $49.82 in 2011. December silver jumped $3.70 per ounce last week and finished near the new contract high following another…