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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 wild beehives on the large kapok trees in the northwest Amazon have been declining for years, somewhere along the rivers that cut through Kofan and Waorani territory. If the bees are present at all, the honey harvests that once filled buckets now fill spoons. Recently, two guests showed up…
The ground has been rising for decades in the port town of Pozzuoli, just west of Naples. Not drastically, not in a way that would cause people to flee into the streets on any given Tuesday, but consistently, quantifiably, and with an accumulation that is now hard to ignore. The…
Imagine a woman in Lagos browsing through an Android wallet app while seated in a tiny store selling airtime and phone accessories. In the last year, the value of the local currency has dropped by a third. The price of cooking oil and the cost of late school fees are…