President Joe Biden has pledged to veto another change to the rules that dictate how much retirement-fund managers, including for 401(k)s and pensions, consider climate change, corporate board diversi...
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What’s next for lumber as it looks to be 2022’s worst-performing commodity
Lumber has the dubious honor of being among the biggest commodity price decliners this year, and the outlook for the market doesn’t look to improve anytime soon. Random-length lumber for January deliv...
Where’s the beef? Rancher sentenced to 11 years for ripping off Tyson Foods of nearly $250 million in ‘ghost cattle’ scam.
A Washington state rancher has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for a nearly quarter-billion-dollar ripoff of Tyson Foods Inc. TSN, -1.22% in which it sold the meat processor more than 260,000 hea...
This asset class is poised to rise 38% because markets overestimate risk of global recession, Goldman says
Still reeling from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s higher-for-longer remarks last week, riskier asset like equities look set for another battering, on Monday. “You can’t have the stock market collapse ov...
What The Bitcoin Industry Needs To Learn From Forestry
LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 30: In this photo illustration, a visual representation of Bitcoin … [+] cryptocurrency is pictured on May 30, 2021 in London, England. Bitcoin is a decentralised dig...
U.S. corn and soybean stocks rise, but corn plantings forecast cut: USDA
Corn futures climbed Thursday after reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday revealed higher U.S. corn and soybean stocks, along with a lower forecast for this year’s planted corn a...
The Russia-Ukraine war is fueling the ‘biggest supply shock to global grain markets’ in living memory
Wheat futures have surged by more than 40% over the last five days, on track for the biggest weekly rise since at least 1959 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine crimps exports of the crucial food grain an...
$1 Billion USDA Program Will Fund Pilot Projects For The Development Of Climate-Smart-Commodity Markets
No-till soybeans following corn – a practice that can lead to carbon sequestration NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service, USDA) On February 7, 2022, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a...
Aurora Cannabis stock gains after first beat on pot sales in more than a year
Aurora Cannabis Inc. shares gained in late trading Thursday, after the Canadian pot producer beat sales expectations for the first time in more than a year. Aurora ACB, -1.08% ACB, -1.02% reported a f...
Bears beware. Past corrections for the S&P 500 are only 15% on average, outside of recessions
Even after a rough January for Wall Street, it might take the U.S. economy slipping into a recession before the S&P 500 index risks entering a bear market, according to Oxford Economics. “Equities...
What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets
Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...