Chicago Board of Trade rice futures ended lower in thin volume on Friday as commercial selling surfaced on the open and set a weak tone for the day, traders said.
The CBOT rice market closed 1 to 5 cents per hundredweight lower, with March down 5 at $8.46-1/2.
Overnight e-CBOT trading will be closed on Sunday, and the CBOT open-outcry session will be closed on Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
Of those, 41 were issued by a customer of Goldberg.
There was strong stopping by the house account of ADM Investor Services taking 40.
The January contract stops trading on January 21.
Estimated volume was light at 307 futures and 24 options.

Copyright Reuters, 2004

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