US FOB Gulf corn and soyabean export premiums held mostly steady on Tuesday but were pressured by a rally in the futures market and export demand shifting to South America, traders said.
Soft red winter wheat basis offers fell, despite Egypt's GASC buying a cargo in its latest tender. There is little overall export demand for SRW wheat and CBOT wheat rallied on Tuesday.
Egypt paid $167.38 per tonne FOB, or option to CBOT May, which closed at $4.55 per bushel on Monday. GASC also bought 84,000 tonnes of Russian wheat for delivery in May, landed costs.
Egypt was also offered Canadian soft wheat at $163.72 per tonne, but it was not one of the origins it was seeking due to quuality concerns, traders said Traders were finalising bids for Morocco's tender for 200,000 tonnes of US soft wheat under a free trade agreement. Hard red winter wheat export premiums were steady, supported by limited old-crop supplies.
In the track market that supplies the Gulf, a few rail cars traded on Tuesday at 80 cents a bushel premium to KCBT May and were rebid at 76 cents over, up 1 cent from Monday, traders said.
In exports, Malta bought 12,000 tonnes of US hard wheat on Tuesday for May delivery. No price was available. Corn basis offers were mostly steady amid the Philippines setting a tender for April 11 to buy 200,000 tonnes of corn for June/July arrival.
Soyabean basis offers were steady after falling sharply last week. Top soyabean buyer China has been buying mostly from South America but limiting its purchases due to negative crushing margins.
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