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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…
The American electrical grid has a subtle unsettling quality. You operate dishwashers, flip switches, and charge phones on a daily basis without really considering what’s underneath. And that is, in a sense, the issue. The majority of the nation’s electrical infrastructure was constructed decades ago, some of it even before…
The majority of people are familiar with their FICO score in the same way that they are familiar with their blood pressure; they are aware that it is important, have a general idea of what constitutes a good score, and have only a vague notion of what causes it. The…
Dawn Watson encountered the trees while swimming three hundred yards off the coast of Norfolk, about twenty feet below the surface. Not driftwood. Not rubble. Massive oak trunks from a forest that had last stood in the open more than ten thousand years ago are lying on the ocean floor,…