Quick Overview

• A slowdown in the United States' housing market may have knocked one percentage point off annual growth, but does not seem to have affected consumer demand much, a Federal Reserve official said.
  

• Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3% in the first quarter of 2007, up from an earlier estimate of 2.4%. YoY GDP rose 2.6%.
  

• YoY Japan's wholesale inflation rose 2.2 percent in May.

• Industrial production in France fell 0.8%.
  

• The USDA estimates 2007-2008 U.S. ending stocks of:
  Corn up from 947 to 997 million bushels.
  Soybeans remained at 320 million bushels.
  Wheat fell from 469 to 443 million bushels.
  Sugar rose from 1.340 to 1.417 million tons.
  Cotton rose from 6.40 to 6.70 million bales.
  

• The USDA estimates 2007-2008 world ending stocks of:
  Corn rose to 92 million tons up from 90 million tons.
  Soybeans at 54 million tons, down from 64.
  Wheat down from 113 to 112 million tons.
  Cotton rose to 51 million tons.
  

• The USDA kept its estimate of Florida's 2006-2007 orange production at 131 million boxes with a juice yield of 1.65 gallons per box.
  

• The USDA estimates 2007-2008 world ending stocks of coffee at 16.8 million bags, the lowest since 1961.