The wheat complex saw stronger trade on Friday, with assistance from some bull friendly USDA numbers. Chicago contracts were up 18 ¼ to 26 cents across most active contracts. Kansas City futures were up 12 ¾ to 21 ½ cents across the board to round out the week. MPLS spring...
Lean hogs saw gains of 20 to 87 cents across most contracts on Friday, with May down 25 cents and sticking close to the index ahead of next week’s expiration. USDA’s National Average Base Hog negotiated price was down 94 cents in the Friday PM report at $88.41. The CME...
The cotton market closed with losses of 55 to 133 points across most contracts on Friday, despite USDA calling for a tighter carryout on old crop. The Friday afternoon Commitment of Traders report showed spec adding 11,765 contracts to their new net short position as of 5/7 at 13,699 contracts....
Live cattle saw initial weakness on Friday, as contracts closed with gains of 20 to 55 cents. Cash was mixed around this week, with the South seeing action anywhere from $183-185, and the North at $186-187. Feeders were on a mixed note at the close with strength in corn pressuring...
Bean futures saw Friday action heading higher into the weekend, as contracts were up anywhere from 1 ¾ to 12 ¼ cents across the board. Soymeal futures were down $1-$2.40/ton. Soy Oil was in rally mode to end the week, with contracts up 104 to 180 points. Weekly data from...
Corn futures posted gains of 4 ¼ to 13 ¼ cents on the Friday session. Futures closed out the day near the highs, following the release of some bull friendly USDA data. In the Friday afternoon Commitment of Traders report, CFTC data showed spec funds in corn futures and options...
One of the tech stocks more deeply in the red over the past few trading days was advertising technology specialist DoubleVerify Holdings (NYSE: DV). That's because it missed the average analyst estimate for profitability, reduced its guidance, and was socked with several price ta
Stock investors tend to be a picky lot, and one item they're picky about is a company's financial guidance. It's all well and good to post quarterly results that beat estimates. However, since most market participants are -- sensibly -- more concerned about the future than the pa
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has caused a paradigm shift in the direction of technology since early last year, and arguably, no company has benefited more than Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The company's graphics processing units (GPUs) are the gold standard when it comes
Walmart WMT shares held their own in last month’s market weakness, cementing its anchoring and defensive positioning, particularly relative to Target TGT and Home Depot HD.
Tsakos Energy (TNP) ended the recent trading session at $28.75, demonstrating a +1.41% swing from the preceding day's closing price. The stock exceeded the S&P 500, which registered a gain of 0.17% for the day. On the other ha
In the latest trading session, Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) closed at $156.06, marking a +1.11% move from the previous day. The stock outperformed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.17%. At the same time, the Dow add
The latest trading session saw Dycom Industries (DY) ending at $150.57, denoting a -0.31% adjustment from its last day's close. The stock's change was less than the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.17%. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced
TJX (TJX) closed the latest trading day at $98.81, indicating a -0.1% change from the previous session's end. The stock's performance was behind the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.17%. Elsewhere, the Dow saw an upswing of 0.32%, wh
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 5/14/24, Viper Energy Inc (Symbol: VNOM) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.27, payable on 5/22/24. As a percentage of VNOM's recent stock price of $37.88, this dividend works out to approx
Investors in ProFrac Holding Corp (Symbol: ACDC) saw new options begin trading this week, for the November 15th expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 189 days until expiration the newly trading c
Investors in Krispy Kreme Inc (Symbol: DNUT) saw new options begin trading this week, for the June 21st expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the DNUT options chain for the new June 21st contracts and identified one put and one cal