November soybeans opened 53 cents lower on the session at 1508 and established an early range of 1481 to 1518 3/4. Prices were sharply lower again this morning in soybeans, meal and oil. Traders indicated that the weakness stemmed from sharply lower crude oil and gold and a firm dollar. This was said to generate heavy selling by locals and funds early in the session which pushed all three markets into commission house sell stops. Meal lost to oil on the early break continuing yesterday's corrective move in that spread. The USDA announced a sale of 38,000 tonnes of soybean oil to Mexico this morning, 9,500 tonnes are for old crop and 28,500 tonnes are for new crop. Trading limits are expanded today to 105 in soybeans and $30 in meal. Oil limits are still at 250 points because that market did not finish at limit down yesterday. Brazil's Agriculture Ministry left its soybean crop estimate unchanged at 59.8 million tonnes in an estimate released today. Basis levels at the Gulf are mostly steady this morning with nearby July bids remaining inverted versus August. Traders say that this inversion is leftover from the strike by farmers in Argentina and the recent closure of the Upper Mississippi River which reduced flow into the Gulf export pipeline. The last closed segment of the river reopened on Saturday.