Quick Overview

• Weather forecasts refer to a "widespread crop ending hard freeze" across Northern Alberta southeastward to Central Saskatchewan with the mercury falling to 19-28F. A second hard freeze is forecast to push into the Dakotas on Saturday.
• Plus reports of frost in northern China potentially damaging corn.
• Tightening US supplies may extend corn's rally, Goldman Sachs says.

• U.S. CPI rose 0.3% in August.

• U.S. consumer sentiment fell in September to 66.6 -- the lowest level since August 2009