* CBOT January soybeans settled down 1-1/2 cents at $8.84-1/4 per bushel.
* CBOT December soymeal ended up 80 cents at $311.40 per short ton while December soyoil finished unchanged at 27.90 cents per pound.
* Ahead of the USDA's monthly supply/demand reports, analysts on average expect the government to lower its US soybean yield estimate but raise its forecast of 2018/19 soy ending stocks.
* Late on Monday, the USDA said the US soybean harvest was 83 percent complete, lagging the five-year average of 89 percent.
* Brazil's soy industry group Abiove raised its projection for the country's soybean exports this year to 79 million tonnes, from 77 million tonnes seen in October.
* Argentine soy crushing factories want to revive their business
with a deal permitting them for the first time to export soymeal livestock feed to China, a pact that the government said was being hammered out this week in Beijing.