Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade climbed to 2-week highs early on Thursday, following a surge in outside markets, especially gold, which notched a fresh 25-year peak, traders said.
At 10:13 am CST (1613 GMT), CBOT corn was up 1/4 to 2-1/4 cents per bushel higher, with May up 2 at $2.26-1/4 per bushel.
FIMAT Futures bought 200 May, pit sources said.
Traders said they were watching gold soar to 25-year highs. The April gold contract on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange had climbed 2 percent early Thursday and at 10:15 am CST (1615 GMT) was up $9.20, or 1.6 percent, at $585.20.
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