The corn market closed the Wednesday session with 3 to 3 ¾ cent losses having wobbled back from the strong start to the week. March printed a 5 ¾ cent range for the day, entirely in the red, but closed 2c off the session low. The new crop soy/corn ratio...
Soybean futures initially faded the Wednesday session with the corn and wheat markets, but prices turned back higher in the afternoon to close in the black for the day. Gains were limited to 3 ½ cents for the front months and Jan ’24 futures settled down by ½ cent. Soymeal...
The live cattle futures market ended the day 22c weaker in the August contract and $1.12 lower in the Feb. That spread is now August at an 85 cent premium, from a $1.67 Feb premium at the start of the month. Feeder cattle were higher on the day with gains...
The wheat market closed Wednesday with 1% to 2% losses in the domestic classes. SRW futures were down by 12 ½ to 13 ¾ cents on at the close. KC HRW futures closed 7 ¾ to 11 cents lower on Wednesday. Front month spring wheat futures finished the day down...
Cotton traded both directions on Wednesday, leading March to a 125 point range for the day. Prices ultimately closed near the session highs with 35 to 59 point gains across the front months. The Dollar Index continued the downtrend on Wednesday, printing lows not seen since July. Reports from Mato...
Front month lean hog futures looked to push the downside on Wednesday after starting the week lower. Feb futures rallied on Wednesday afternoon to close up by 57 cents for the day, after trading in a $1.78 range. The other front month futures were off their daily lows for the...
Chilean lithium miner SQM said on Wednesday it would partner with Codelco for the development and production of the rechargeable battery metal in the Atacama salt flat between 2025 and 2060, in a deal giving the state-run miner majority control.
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market has climbed higher in four straight sessions, advancing more than 340 points or 2 percent along the way. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 17,890-point plateau and it's expected to extend its gains again on Thursday.
Australian shares rose on Thursday to trade near a 20-month high scaled in the previous session, as expectations grew that key global central banks such as the Federal Reserve will start to cut interest rates early next year.
Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked morning traffic on Wednesday around Los Angeles International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport - two of the nation's busiest - in coast-to-coast demonstrations that ended with dozens of arrests.
An employee of Canadian oil and gas company Vermilion Energy has agreed to pay a C$400,000 ($302,755) penalty after admitting to illegal insider trading in a takeover target's shares, the Alberta Securities Commission said on Wednesday.
A rapper who attended a celebrity party with only a sock to hide his modesty has been jailed for 15 days, sponsors of some of Russia's best known entertainers have torn up their contracts, and President Vladimir Putin is reported to be unamused.
(RTTNews) - The Singapore stock market bounced higher again on Wednesday, one day after ending the three-day winning streak in which it had picked up more than 30 points or 1 percent. The Straits Times Index now sits just above the 3,170-point plateau and it may see additional su
What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.06%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.10%. Stocks this morning are mixed amid thin holiday-season trading....
Software firm MicroStrategy said on Wednesday it had bought bitcoin worth about $615.7 million in cash, amid growing expectations that the top U.S. markets regulator will soon approve a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
Brazil's federal public debt increased 2.48% in November from the month before to 6.325 trillion reais ($1.31 trillion), the Treasury said on Wednesday.
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Shares of Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK) dropped 10.8% through 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, probably in response to investors finally getting around to reading a report in The Wall Street Journal yesterday that detailed the troubles afflicting electric car charging stocks in the U.S.