There has been some talk on ag markets that, in traders' parlanace the bears need feeding, with fresh price-negative news, if grain prices are to continue their downward slide. The bears did not get much of a meal on Wednesday, allowing futures which were already pricing in a stack of strong crop supply news to stage a recovery. OK, there were some bearish-looking snippets. Russia, for instance, talked of an imminent lifting of its wheat export tax, with its crop prospects for this year Read more [...]

Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifrón, who rose to international prominence with the Cannes premiere of Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales), which became Argentina’s top box office draw ever and went on to compete for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar, has made it to Hollywood. Szifrón, according to a report released yesterday and distributed by trade publications, has been hired to write the screenplay for the movie remake of the worldwide TV hit The Six-Million-Dollar Man, which starred Lee Majors as Read more [...]

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to open its files on Argentina’s military dictatorship, a move that could help the families of thousands of victims of the military regime finally discover the fate of their loved ones. “This is the pope’s wish – for something to be done – so he has asked the secretariat of state to take charge of it, and work has already begun on declassifying the Vatican archives related to Argentina’s dictatorship,” Father Guillermo Karcher, an Argentinian priest Read more [...]