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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…
When the fear gauge begins to rise, a specific type of anxiety descends upon a trading floor or, more frequently these days, over a home office with an excessive number of open browser tabs. The S&P 500 fell 1.33% in a single week late in March, partly due to BlackRock…
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to snorkel over a reef, picture it from memory rather than from a nature documentary. The first thing is the color. Fish threading between coral heads with a kind of lazy confidence that comes from living inside a functioning system, impossible blues, yellows,…
There is a forest in northern Myanmar’s Hukawng Valley that is still alive in the only way a forest that old can be. It did not endure through seeds, roots, or other biological means. It survived in resin, a thick, slow-moving sap that dripped from towering araucarian conifers in the…