Lean hog futures closed the midweek session with contracts 22 to 95 cent gains, as soon to expire August was down 20 cents. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $95.81 on Wednesday afternoon, down 51 cents fro…
Cotton futures saw strength on Wednesday, with contracts 8 to 48 points higher, as December was the lone holdout, down a tick. Crude oil was down just 62 cents per barrel, with the US dollar index $0.140 higher.
American seniors pay dramatically more for brand-name prescription drugs than patients in 19 comparable countries, and the gap keeps widening each year.
Alphabet on Wednesday unveiled its new Pixel 11 smartphone lineup, putting its most agentic version of Gemini yet at the center of the devices just weeks before Apple is expected to roll out a rebuilt Siri powered by Go…
Consumer prices rose in July — a reversal of the pullback in June — but showed inflation broadly moderating, even as energy remained sharply higher than a year ago.
Less than a year after buying a controlling ownership stake in the NBA's Lakers, Mark Walter has sold his majority equity to Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger, according to a statement.
The U.S. budget deficit soared to its highest monthly level in more than five years amid a surge in Medicare costs and as interest on the federal debt continued to weigh on the nation's fiscal picture, the Treasury Depa…
A tax break for Americans selling their primary residence could become part of the Trump administration's midterm pitch. But experts say such an effort is unlikely to happen quickly — and the benefits would skew to weal…
Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is near a three-month low as doubt grows that the U.S. and Iran will reach an agreement to fully open the key Middle East oil export corridor.
And underperforming other ETFs today is the KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF, off about 2.3% in Wednesday afternoon trading. Among components of that ETF with the weakest showing on Wednesday were shares of Kanzhun, l…
Also lagging the market Wednesday are apparel stores shares, down on the day by about 1.9% as a group, led down by Savers Value Village, trading lower by about 9.9% and Lulus Fashion Lounge Holdings, trading lower by ab…
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) is up +0.45%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is up +0.13%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up +1.00%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) are up +0.99%, and Sept…
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Every few quarters, the debate around Nvidia moves. For a while, it was about whether AI demand was real. Then it was about whether margins could hold. Now, heading into its August 26 earnings report, the question is wh…
Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX) is consolidating within a bearish flag at $152.28, hovering above $143.90 support. While Grok 4.5 and Nvidia infrastructure investments bolster the AI growth narrative, increased co…
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The dollar index (DXY00) is down -0.08% as expectations for a Fed rate hike eased on today’s favorable CPI report. The dollar was also undercut by today’s -2.1 bp decline in the 10-year T-note yield, which undercut the …
China's homegrown C919 passenger jet departed on its first scheduled international commercial flight Wednesday, marking a milestone in Beijing's push to develop an alternative to Boeing and Airbus.
The daily chart for October lean hog futures (HEV26) shows that prices are trending down and have recently hit a four-week low. See, too, that the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) indicator is in a bearish p…
AI cloud giant CoreWeave was up in premarket trading on Wednesday after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled, driven by surging demand from hyperscalers for AI compute capacity.
US stock futures were little changed in premarket trading on Wednesday as investors braced for fresh Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, which could alter the Fed's interest rate calculus.