Friday, July 20, 2007

S.Africa maize firm as crop fears outweigh US sell-off

(Reuters) - South Africa's most-traded maize contract held firm on Friday as domestic crop woes outweighed a sell-off in the United States.

December white maize ticked only 0.11 percent higher to 1,783 rand a tonne but departed from a recent trend of shadowing prices on the Chicago Board of Trade, where futures fell to a nine-month low on Thursday.


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