Technical selling, fund liquidation and demand concerns drove Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures to multi-month lows on Friday, analysts said.

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures sink to multi-month lows

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn higher, hog futures rebound
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures firmed on Thursday, bolstered by technical trading and anticipated consumer demand going into the grilling season, analysts said.

U.S. livestock: CME livestock futures turn higher amid rising wholesale prices
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures turned higher on Tuesday, as continued strength in wholesale prices eased concerns about consumer demand - even as investors grew nervous about ongoing inflationary concerns and rising consumer prices, traders said.

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures rise on wholesale prices, technical trade
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live futures turned higher on Monday, as a flurry of technical trading and strength in wholesale prices helped contracts rebound off recent months' lows, traders said.

U.S. livestock: Cattle tumble ahead of weekend on bird flu fears
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures plunged on Friday to the lowest point since mid-January as concerns about beef demand amid reports of avian influenza in cattle sparked fund long liquidation ahead of the weekend.

U.S. livestock: Live cattle end firm as bird flu selloff seen overdone
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures firmed on Thursday in a bargain-buying rebound from the prior session's two-month lows, as some investors deemed the recent drop in prices to be overdone.

U.S. grains: Cattle end lower on beef demand concerns, hogs higher
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell to a fresh two-month low on Wednesday on technical selling and fund liquidation, as investors gauged whether beef demand would suffer amid recent news of avian influenza in dairy cattle.

U.S. livestock: Cattle claw back some losses after bird flu selloff
Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures rebounded on Tuesday as traders reassessed the market after worries about cattle infected with avian influenza had triggered a sharp selloff a day earlier.

U.S. livestock: CME cattle plunge as bird flu fears spark speculative selloff
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures plunged on Monday on market uncertainty following news of a human case of avian influenza in a person who had contact with infected dairy cows.

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures slide to two-month lows
Data signals producers still sending cattle to slaughter instead of rebuilding the U.S. herd
Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures tanked on Tuesday on fund selling and as markets remained under pressure from bigger-than-expected U.S. feedlot placements, brokers said.