Quick Overview

• Inventories at U.S. wholesalers rose 1.3% in July

• QoQ Italy's gross domestic product grew by 0.5% in Q2 and by 1.3% % YoY

• The Consumer Price Index in Spain rose by 0.3% in August

• The Brazilian industrial earnings increased 11.4% in the first seven months of 2010

• Japan's GDP increased a revised 0.4 percent in April-June from the previous quarter

• The USDA's estmates:
• Corn production at 13.160 billion bushels
• Corn yield at 162.5 vs. the trade's guess of 163.1 bu. per acre
• U.S. corn ending stocks at 1.116 billion bushels vs. the trade's guess of 1.125 billion bushels for 2010-11
• Soybean production at 3.483 billion bushels
• Soybean yield at 44.7 vs. the trade's guess of 43.8 bu. per acre.
• U.S. soybean end stocks at 350 vs. the trade's guess of 304 million bushels
• Wheat ending stocks 902 mln bu, downn 50 mln from Aug.

• Bangladesh has became the latest nation to increase its official reserves of gold, buying 10 tonnes of the stuff

• Canada's August jobless rate out at 8.1%