Thomas C. Willis Sr.

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  "You couple a perfect storm of cheap money and the most volatile and biggest markets of all time with larceny and you've got an ugly story," says Tom C. Willis, longtime grain trader and vice president at Mesirow Financial Commodities Management.

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  "Down in a relative sense is not down very much," given that crude was up more than $3 a barrel a day ago, said Thomas C. Willis, senior adviser and investment strategist with Mesirow Financial.

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  "The farmer rightfully chose to plant corn at those prices," says Tom C. Willis of Mesirow Financial."It was certainly more than last year, but last year was one of the lowest planted acres in soybeans in many years," he says, and those acres are also likely less productive."It's a perfect storm," he says, adding that a bad energy policy, which promoted corn production, and bad weather have the market on a razor's edge."We can't even afford below trendline yield," he says, adding that he's a buyer between $14 and $13.75; and with the momentum traders, tight stocks and a weather disaster, the market could do anything.

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  Coupled with a weak dollar, new-year index buying further boosted oil and agri- cultural futures, according to Thomas Willis of Mesirow Financial.
  
  "I would suggest that there has been anticipatory buying prior to today," he said.

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  Coupled with a weak dollar, new-year index buying further boosted oil and agricultural futures, according to Thomas Willis of Mesirow Financial.
  
  "I would suggest that there has been anticipatory buying prior to today," he said.

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  Coupled with a weak dollar, new-year index buying further boosted oil and agricultural futures, according to Thomas Willis of Mesirow Financial.
  
  "I would suggest that there has been anticipatory buying prior to today," he said.

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  Published on: 11/21/2007    Last Visited: 11/21/2007  

  "Down in a relative sense is not down very much," given that crude was up more than $3 a barrel a day ago, said Thomas C. Willis, senior adviser and investment strategist with Mesirow Financial.

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  The rise in gold is part and parcel of a single trading strategy at this point, says Thomas C. Willis Sr., senior adviser and investment strategist with Mesirow Financial in Chicago.
  
  "What are going to be the ramifications of the subprime problem and does it leak into the broader economy?"he asks.

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  Published on: 7/19/2007    Last Visited: 7/20/2007  

  Traders were "tracking the thunderstorms that landed right on the traders' heads last night in the northern (Chicago) suburbs," said Thomas C. Willis Sr., senior adviser at Mesirow Financial LLC in Chicago.

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  "What we're watching today is clearly the rain event, tracking the thunderstorms that landed right on the traders' heads last night in the northern (Chicago) suburbs," said Thomas C. Willis Sr., senior adviser at Mesirow Financial LLC in Chicago.

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