Arabica Coffee Prices Slide on Dry Weather Forecasts for Brazil
September arabica coffee (KCU26) closed down -2.75 (-0.84%) on Thursday, and September ICE robusta coffee (RMU26) closed up +7 (+0.19%).
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Ample Global Supplies Undercut Cocoa Prices
Cocoa prices are moving lower today and are just above Tuesday’s 3.5-week lows. Cocoa prices have been under pressure over the past two weeks and posted 3.5-week lows on Tuesday on signs of larger global cocoa supplies …
Read more →Jersey Mike's stock falls 7% in public market debut after pricing shares at $23
Shares of Jersey Mike's fell about 7% during trading on Thursday afternoon after the company made its public market debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "JMKE."
Read more →Implosion of Situational Awareness has Wall Street betting the bottom is in for the AI trade
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Read more →UEFA threatens World Cup boycott over FIFA private equity investment plan
European soccer governing body UEFA said Thursday it will boycott FIFA competitions including the World Cup if the global organization goes through with its proposal to sell a stake to private investors.
Read more →OpenAI’s Sam Altman to discuss voluntary AI safety tests with Trump officials after agent went rogue
The meeting follows a rogue AI agent incident that has intensified scrutiny of voluntary safety testing and oversight for advanced AI systems
Read more →Trump says sanctions bill should include tariffs on Iran, despite 'trivial' trade with U.S.
President Donald Trump wants Congress to add tariffs on Iran to a sanctions bill against Russia and Tehran that has bipartisan support.
Read more →Warsh’s Wall Street cred takes a hit as investors doubt the Fed chair’s inflation-fighting resolve
The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, but three Fed presidents dissented, highlighting the pressure building on the central bank to confront stubbornly elevated inflation.
Read more →China’s open-weight model lead exposes America’s AI blind spot
Some of America's biggest technology companies are pushing Washington to make open artificial intelligence a national priority as China continues to build its lead in the space.
Read more →The warning signal insiders are sending
For more than three years, the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has been the stock market's leading catalyst. The capacity for software and systems to make split-second decisions without human oversight, and th…
Read more →Thursday 7/30 Insider Buying Report: NWFL, BFST
As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money. So let's look at two noteworthy recent insider buys.
Read more →Sugar Prices Fall on the Prospects of Higher Indian Sugar Production
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV26) today is down -0.06 (-0.41%), and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV26) is down -1.70 (-0.37%).
Read more →Ample Global Supplies Undercut Cocoa Prices
Cocoa prices are moving lower today and are just above Tuesday’s 3.5-week lows. Cocoa prices have been under pressure over the past two weeks and posted 3.5-week lows on Tuesday on signs of larger global cocoa supplies …
Read more →Dry Weather Forecast for Brazil Weighs on Arabica Coffee Prices
Coffee prices are mixed today. Arabica coffee is under pressure today on forecasts for mostly dry weather in Brazil’s coffee-growing regions over the next week, which should allow for the pace of the country’s coffee ha…
Read more →Stocks Rebound as Microsoft Earnings Ease AI Spending Concerns
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) today is up +1.12%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is up +0.64%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up +2.69%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) are up +1.09%, an…
Read more →Stocks Rally on Stellar Microsoft Earnings and Chip Stock Strength
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) today is up +0.86%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is up +0.29%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is up +2.65%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) are up +0.84%, an…
Read more →Stocks Plunge on a Rout in Chipmakers and a Hawkish Fed Hold
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Wednesday closed down -1.52%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -2.19%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -2.06%. September E-mini S&P futures …
Read more →‘Don’t get suckered like I did’: I paid $185 to the wrong passport website. Can I get my money back?
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Read more →Apple and Amazon report after the bell. Here's what the options market is saying
Earnings on deck this afternoon for Apple and Amazon will likely decide if the stock market can end what's so far been a rough week on solid footing.
Read more →Cash Dividend On The Way From BCE's Preferred Shares, Series AC
As of last close, BCE.PRC was trading at a 13.20% discount to its liquidation preference amount. It should be noted that the preferred shares are convertible, with a conversion ratio of Holders of Series AC Preferred Sh…
Read more →Micron, Sandisk and other chip stocks get major boosts in the wake of Microsoft’s earnings
Stock futures are moving higher across the board this morning. The tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) leads the charge, after Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang debuted the company's N1X processor chip for personal computers…
Read more →OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs
OpenAI on Thursday announced it is slashing the price of two of its latest artificial intelligence models, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, roughly three weeks after their public release.
Read more →Social Security’s biggest problem isn’t a design flaw. It’s a missing trust fund.
The next two sections of this report include additional comments from experts, organized under the most common themes found in their responses. These remarks generally echo the sentiments expressed by the experts whose …
Read more →The cyclospora outbreak is the biggest ever. Why this ‘unusual’ outbreak is so hard to manage.
WASHINGTON — As cases of explosive diarrhea continue to rise across the U.S. this summer, health officials are grappling with a longstanding question about the tiny parasite that's behind all this torment: Just how the …
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