AG FUTURES ENDED THE WEEK mainly lower. Canola finished 2.90 under the previous close at 524.40. The trading range was 523.60 to 529.20. Chicago wheat settled at 647-1/4, down 6-1/4 with a range of 645 and 656-1/2. Minneapolis wheat ended the day at 826-1/41 lower. Trading opened at 827-1/2 with the day's high and low of 833-1/2 and 823-3/4. Corn settled up 7-1/4 from the previous close at 641-3/4. The high-low range was 642-1/4 to 631. Chicago soybeans closed at 1219, down 3-3/4 with a high and low of 1225-3/4 and 1215. Soy oil finished 0.35 lower at 51.59. Chicago oats closed down 2 at 298-3/4.

LIVESTOCK FUTURES worked higher across the board with live cattle at 124.750, up 0.200. Feeder cattle finished up 0.975 at 154.600. Lean hog futures gained 0.550 closing at 86.500.

THE CANADIAN DOLLAR was at 0.99780, up 0.0004. The US dollar was down against the euro by 0.012 at 1.3231.

AT 15:40 TORONTO STOCKS were up 2.18 points with the S&P index at 12466.5. The New York DJ industrial average was down 74.17 at 12660.46.

Natural gas ended at 2.775, up 0.121. Gold was up 11.80 at 1714.0.

IN THE METALS copper futures dropped 0.0065 to 3.8950, silver gained 0.127 to 33.870, platinum rose 8.30 to 1625.0 and palladium lost 4.15 to 690.30.