Sugar Prices Recover on Brazilian Real Strength
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24) today is up +0.02 (+0.11%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24) is unchanged.
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Abundant Supplies and Brazil Rains Weigh on Coffee Prices
Coffee prices are sharply lower today, with arabica dropping to a 3-month low. Coffee prices have been under pressure over the past three weeks on the outlook for abundant global s…
Corn Bouncing Back in Monday AM Trade
Corn price action is up 6 to 7 cents on the day. Futures fell weaker on Friday, with contracts down 2 to 3 ¼ cents on the day, as December was down 2 ¾ cents for the week. Open int…
Fed’s Musalem says more rate hikes likely needed to curb inflation
St. Louis Federal Reserve (Fed) President Alberto Musalem said interest rates likely need to rise further to tame inflation that is both demand- and supply-driven. He warned that w…
Paramount and state AGs settle lawsuit, allowing Warner Bros. merger to proceed
Paramount Skydance's $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery will move forward as the company settled Monday with a group of state attorneys general that sought to block th…
FAA halts flights to Newark, Philadelphia, New York because of equipment problem
An equipment outage on Monday delayed hundreds of flights bound for Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia and forced close to 70 planes to divert to other airports. As of 1 p.m. ET,…
Meta’s stock is enjoying its best month in 13 years thanks to the company’s hot new AI assistant
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VFLO’s Rebalance Re-Energizes Its Free Cash Flow Strategy
Large-cap valuations continue to stretch toward unprecedented levels, which makes it difficult for traditional accounting-based metrics to locate true value. The VictoryShares Free…
OUSM ETF Rebalances: Highlighting Quality Factor Shifts
The index underpinning the ALPS O’Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM) recently completed its annual reconstitution on September 18. Small-cap equities continue to nav…
Canadian dollar under pressure as oil retreats and US rate outlook supports greenb
Gold price (XAU/USD) is down 0.61% to near $4,350 during the European trading session on Monday. The yellow metal is under pressure as the US Dollar (USD) remains broadly firm amid…
xAI Launches Grok 4.7. It's Bigger, But Late to the AI Frontier Party
Elon Musk’s xAI released Grok 4.7 on Monday afternoon, its best model to date, calling it "a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed."
Eli Lilly CEO tells CNBC one-third of new GLP-1 pill patients are taking Foundayo, as drugmaker ramps up production
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks told CNBC on Monday that one-third of new GLP-1 pill patients are taking the drugmaker's Foundayo, as the company tries to catch up to a lead in the space …
Stock boom is fueling a ‘retirement party,’ economists say — what it means for workers
Workers age 55 and older are leaving the labor force at a rapid pace, government data shows, a trend that coincides with ballooning stock wealth fueled by euphoria over artificial …
Stocks and Bonds Climb as Slumping Crude Prices Ease Inflation Risks
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) is up by +0.93% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is up by +0.39%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up +1.97%. December …
Crude Prices Retreat on Hopes Middle East Energy Exports to Recover
October WTI crude oil (CLV26) closed down -1.61 (-1.58%) on Friday, and October RBOB gasoline (RBV26) closed up +0.0203 (+0.58%).
Nasdaq’s AI Boom Is Expensive — But This Still Isn’t Dot-Com 2.0
One of the consistent themes of this newsletter is how the stock market is increasingly disconnected from underlying economic activity. In the Number Go Up Rule, I traced how we in…
BoC’s Macklem sees inflation drifting higher as uncertainty lingers
The Bank of Canada Governor, Tiff Macklem, said that he expects inflation to “drift up a little higher in the coming months,” and commented that “A new era of uncertainty is not go…