The condition of corn considered “good” or “excellent” remained 60% or lower for the ninth straight week. (John Roach/AccuWeather). The Crop Progress report seems like a tag-along little brother when it is issued later on the same day as the U.S. …
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Yield curve inversion happens when short-rates rise above longer ones. Inversion happened in the U.S. in March of this year and has broadly continued since. This is a bad sign. The Federal Reserve (Fed) has expressed some concern about an inverted …
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There are people in this world who drink hot coffee when it’s 100 degrees out. I am not one of those people. Long before there was the Frappuccino, my grandma was freezing mugs of leftover coffee and sugar for me to make summer afternoon coffee slushies …
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New York (CNN Business) Wall Street’s trade war anxiety isn’t going away. The Dow dropped 400 points, or 1.6%, on Monday afternoon. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq lost about 1.4% apiece. Treasury bond yields once again fell sharply as investors piled into …
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Two high-profile Senate Democrats are asking Amazon for answers about its “Amazon’s Choice” badge, saying the recommendation engine could potentially be deceiving consumers into buying “inferior” products. In a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on …
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