1.   Corn futures climbed after a government report of surprisingly strong exports signaled a pickup in world demand.

2.   Interest rate futures climbed following the report.

3.   Kansas City Value Line stock-index futures climbed to new records, following stocks.

4.   Oil futures climbed in London and New York as refined product prices rose amid refinery cutbacks and forecasts of freezing weather in the U.S. Northeast this weekend.

5.   Pork belly futures could climb one cent to two cents a pound higher in the session on Wednesday, traders said.

6.   Soybean futures also climbed amid reports of healthy world and U.S. demand.

7.   Wheat futures climbed for the first time in three days as dry weather in the plains states threatened the winter wheat crop, analysts said.

8.   Wheat futures climbed amid concern that rains in the Northern Plains could delay harvesting the crop.

9.   After plunging Thursday on a biotech scare, soybean futures climbed back to regain some of the lost ground.

10.   Beef futures declined and pork futures climbed sharply on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.