Wednesday, 23 September 2026
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A pair of major mandates totaling $70 billion in retirement assets — one from Verizon Communications and one from Lockheed Martin — will be handled by Goldman Sachs, the firm disclosed Thursday, marking one of the more …
Closely followed investor Michael Burry says he's placing bets against prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, which he expects to be curbed by regulations.
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Corn prices are down 2 to 4 cents early on Thursday. Futures fell back on Wednesday after rallying nearly 40 cents off the lows last week, with contracts down 3 to 8 ¾ cents at the close. Open interest was down 3,588 co…
Lean hog futures closed Wednesday with gains of $1.05 to $3.87. Open interest fell 3,035 contracts, mainly in the front months. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $97.79 on Wednesday afternoon, up $1.37 from…
U.S. Technology giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: $META) is planning to build its first artificial intelligence (A.I.) data centre in Canada.
ClearBridge Investments, a global equity manager, recently published second-quarter 2026 commentary for its "Large Cap Growth Strategy". A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Equity markets experienced a signific…
TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL senior corporate vice president and COO (Testing) Lim Hwee Poh received a grant of stock options covering 5,000 shares of common stock. The options have an exercise price of $9.74 per share and e…
President Donald Trump may not follow through on his demand for the U.S. to completely sever trade with Spain — but he could if he wanted to, using the same law behind his failed "reciprocal" tariffs, U.S. Trade Represe…
NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Thursday that despite the renewal of war in the Middle East, he was not looking for a sustained rise in energy prices over the …
What happened: Micron Technology (MU) stock jumped 8% on Thursday, joining a broader rally across memory and AI-related stocks. Sandisk (SNDK), Western Digital (WDC), Marvell (MRVL), Broadcom (AVGO), Intel (INTC), and A…
Cotton futures are trading with 65 to 96 point losses so far on Thursday’s midday. Crude oil prices are back up $1.88/barrels. The US dollar index is up $0.975 to $100.410.
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On July 18, 2025, a 69-year-old man in a wheelchair was rolled into Courtroom 2 of the Oakland federal building and sworn in. Judge Jon Tigar asked Jasbir Thandi whether everything in paragraph 2 of his plea agreement, …
Looking for the right retirement plan advisor? In this episode, Stephen Puckett of Fiduciary Pension Partners breaks down how retirement plan advisory fees really work—what you're paying for, how services are structured…
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Bell Global Equities Fund, managed by Bell Asset Management, released its May investor update. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The global equity market continued its rally in May, driven by accelerating AI …
ClearBridge Investments, a global equity manager, recently published second-quarter 2026 commentary for its "Large Cap Growth Strategy". A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Equity markets experienced a signific…
The Iran War, tariffs and the demand-driven AI-investment boon could add up to create inflationary conditions where Federal Reserve policymakers would need to consider interest-rate hikes later this year.
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As worldwide markets are challenged amid a backdrop of higher interest rates and ongoing conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine, one thing has not changed. U.S. stocks are more expensive than global stocks. And that's …
It was 2007. George W. Bush was president. The U.S. economy was expanding, but there were growing signs that the explosive growth in the housing market — and maybe the entire boom of the past five or six years — was a g…