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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…
There is a rusted metal cap bolted into a concrete floor somewhere in the northern Russian Kola Peninsula, close to the Norwegian border, surrounded by Arctic forest and the kind of silence found only at the edge of the inhabited world. It’s not big. There is nothing dramatic about it.…
When oil futures cross a round number on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor with the speed at which they crossed $100 in early March, there is a certain atmosphere that is unique to the financial industry. Because traders are too seasoned for that, it isn’t quite a celebration. It resembles…
If you spend an afternoon at a diner in a mid-sized Midwestern city, where the lunch special is still written on a chalkboard and the coffee comes in a thick ceramic mug, you will learn something from the conversations at nearby tables that no survey can fully capture. People experience…