Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying, bouncing off the session’s lows. China and unknown bought more U.S. beans, the seventh business day in a row with announced sales, even as tensions between the U.S. and China rise. Two sales were listed as heading to China: 453,000 tons, with 66,000 for 2019/20 and 387,000 tons for 2020/21, and 262,000 tons, all for 2020/21 delivery, and the sale to unknown destinations was 211,300 tons, also all for 2020/21 delivery.

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