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View MoreLive cattle futures Tuesday fell across the board even as wholesale beef prices climbed sharply, with Choice boxes crossing $400 ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend. The front-month Jun 26 contract settled at $255.150, down $0.675, while the benchmark Aug 26 contract closed at $246.000, off $1.350. Live Cattle…
Three international small-cap ETFs — GWX, PDN, and DLS — are giving investors a practical route into developed-market equities that have traded at some of their lowest valuations relative to U.S. large caps in decades, while also posting competitive returns over the past year. Ticker1-Year ReturnYTD ReturnDividend YieldExpense RatioAUM GWX~25%~12%2.51%0.40%~$898M…
Tiny bones cover the floor of a cave in Dorset, Vermont. Bat skulls, dozens of them, scattered like dry debris across the rock. Biologists who first walked through after white-nose syndrome took hold described the ground outside as carpeted with dead bodies. The cave once held somewhere between 300,000 and…
Mike Fincke lost his ability to speak at dinnertime on the International Space Station, which was located 250 miles above Earth. No caution. No discomfort. He was eating after finishing the hours-long, painstaking preparation for a spacewalk, which astronauts train for for years, when something turned off. Almost instantly, his…
Denis Maksimov asked Vladimir Putin for assistance while standing in front of his bakery in Kraskovo, a sleepy working-class town east of Moscow with modest storefronts and long winters. He looked straight into a camera. The smell of bread came from the bakery behind him, named Mashenka after his oldest…