DTN Early Word Grains         05/17 05:51
   Grain Markets Higher Friday on Planting Delays, Strength in Palm Oil and
European Wheat Contracts

   July corn is up 2 3/4 cents per bushel, July soybeans are up 11 cents, July
KC wheat is up 11 1/4 cents, July Chicago wheat is up 9 1/2 cents and July
Minneapolis wheat is up 6 1/2 cents.

Kent Beadle, DTN Contributing Analyst

   EARLY MORNING GLOBEX NET CHANGES: July corn is up 2 3/4 cents per bushel,
July soybeans are up 11 cents, July KC wheat is up 11 1/4 cents, July Chicago
wheat is up 9 1/2 cents and July Minneapolis wheat is up 6 1/2 cents.

   CME GLOBEX RECAP: World equity markets are mixed Friday morning, after U.S.
markets on Thursday retreated from lifetime highs to close the day slightly
lower. Continued uncertainty around the direction of the economy and the timing
of interest rate cuts from the Fed was responsible for the late session
weakness. Thursday's economic news provided mostly worse than expected economic
data. Friday morning, we will get the U.S. leading economic indicators at 7:30
a.m. CDT.

   OUTSIDE MARKETS: Previous closes Thursday showed the Dow Jones Industrial
Average down 38.62 at 39,869.38 and the S&P 500 down 11.05 at 5,297.10, The
10-Year Treasury yield ended at 4.595%. Early Friday, the June Dow Jones
Futures are down 6 points. European markets are lower with the spot futures of
London's FTSE 100 trading down 0.31%, spot futures of Germany's DAX is trading
down 0.37% and the spot futures of France's CAC 40 Index down 0.44%. Asian
markets are mixed with Japan's Nikkei 225 Index down 0.34% and China's Shanghai
Composite Index up 1.01%.