Author: admin

The wheat complex posted losses across most contracts on Friday. Chicago SRW contracts were down 9 to 12 3/4 cents in the front months, with July 27 ½ cents lower on the week. KC HRW futures were 9 to 11 ¾ cents in the red on Friday, with the weekly loss for July at 33 cents. MPLS spring wheat was 8 ½ to 11 ¾ cents lower on the day, with the weekly mode of 47 ½ cents lower. CFTC data showed managed money adding 1,675 contracts to their net short position in the week ending on June 23, taking it…

Adriano Duarte has been tapped as EVP and CFO of Provident Bank and Provident Financial Services. Duarte will lead the Finance division, including accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, investor relations, corporate strategy, financial reporting, tax, facilities, and financial risk management. He will also serve as an advisor to the executive leadership team and board of directors. Duarte will report directly to Anthony Labozzetta, CEO and president of Provident Bank, and will assume his position on July 1. Duarte succeeds Thomas Lyons, who retired after two decades with Provident.  Luke Blackwell has been named president of NexEnergy, a newly formed group within Dallas-based NexPoint, an energy-focused alternative investment firm. Blackwell will be…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed down -0.05%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down -0.09%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down -1.09%.  September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26) fell -0.12%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQU26) fell -1.19%. Stock indexes settled lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 falling to 2-week lows.  The weakness in chipmakers weighed on the overall market Friday.  South Korea’s Kospi Index fell by more than -5% on Friday after Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix sold off, sparking a global decline in chipmakers.  Stocks also came under pressure on Friday…

DJIA38904.04 307.06S&P 5005204.34 57.13NASDAQ16248.52 199.44Russell 20002060.10 8.70German DAX18163.94 -238.49FTSE 1007911.16 -64.73CAC 408061.31 -90.24EuroStoxx 505013.35 -57.20Nikkei 22538992.08 -781.06Hang Seng16723.92 -1.18Shanghai Comp3069.30 -5.66KOSPI2714.21 -27.79Bloomberg Comm IDX102.90 0.64WTI Crude-fut91.17 0.01Brent Crude-fut86.57 1.15Natural Gas1.79 0.00Gasoline-fut2.79 -0.01Gold-fut2345.40 33.50Silver-fut27.50 0.46Platinum-fut940.60 -5.50Palladium-fut1007.40 -23.60Copper-fut423.60 1.85Aluminum-spot1815.00 0.00Coffee-fut212.50 5.75Soybeans-fut1185.00 5.00Wheat-fut567.25 11.00Bitcoin67976.00 304.00Ethereum USD3328.10 56.27Litecoin98.71 0.69Dogecoin0.18 0.00EUR/USD1.0862 0.0007USD/JPY151.72 -0.02GBP/USD1.2678 0.0016USD/CHF0.9044 -0.0014USD IDX104.28 0.08US 10-Yr TR4.4 0.091GER 10-Yr TR2.406 0.007UK 10-Yr TR4.064 -0.005JAP 10-Yr TR0.771 -0.004Fed Funds5.5 0SOFR5.32 0

Palo Alto, United States, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire Toss users can now contribute real-world data to train AI and get paid for it, in a first-of-its-kind model launching in Korea ahead of global expansion. Poseidon, the data infrastructure built to source and license real-world data for AI, today announced a partnership with Toss, the mobile financial platform operated by Viva Republica, to let everyday users contribute to AI training and be paid for what they provide. It is Toss’s first move into AI data, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million users. Frontier AI has run out…

Live cattle futures were 52 cents to $1.32 higher on Wednesday. Open interest was down 1,801 contracts on Wednesday. Cash trade saw some light $260 live and $408 dressed in the north on Wednesday. The Wednesday morning, Fed Cattle Exchange online auction showed no sales on the 1,636 head offered, with bids at $255. Feeders were the bull leaders on Wednesday, with contracts $1.50 to $4.77 higher at the close. OI was up just 617 contracts. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was up $2.83 on June 23 to $375.83. USDA’s APHIS reported another 3 cases of new world screwworm in Texas…

Ratios: What Are They? In finance, a ratio is the mathematical relationship between the prices or values of two different assets. Essentially, a ratio shows how many units of one asset are needed to purchase a single unit of another asset. When plotted over the long term, these figures can highlight relationships, relative performance, or potential mispricings across various asset classes. Ratios are particularly useful because they strip away the informational noise created by inflation, central bank money printing, and short-term currency fluctuations. By pricing one asset relative to another, a trader can determine whether something is truly cheap or…

Palo Alto, United States, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire Story rebrands as The DATA Foundation, launches DATA Network with flagship Kled AI integration, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the platform The Foundation also introduces Trace, the first public audit layer for consent, licensing, and data provenance at scale Today, Story announces a strategic transition to become The DATA Foundation (“DATA”) and launches Trace, an onchain registry for AI training data provenance and licensing. The launch includes a flagship integration with Kled, the world’s largest opt-in human data marketplace, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the Network. Andrea Muttoni becomes CEO…

London, United Arab Emirates, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire Solstice to launch aiUSX, a yield-bearing asset that lets companies help finance the buildout with the capital they already hold for AI. TensorX and Solstice today announced a partnership to finance European sovereign AI infrastructure. TensorX and Solstice will work together to create a facility with up to $1 billion in capacity to finance AI hardware and data-center build-out to meet rising demand for sovereign compute across the EU. Solstice will provide the onchain financing for that buildout and will launch aiUSX, a potential yield asset that opens the same infrastructure lending…

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, announced continued growth across its ecosystem as cumulative trading volume approached $1 billion, reaching $946.29 million alongside $20.71 million in Total Value Locked (TVL), according to on-chain data from DefiLlama. This surge is directly driven by the protocol’s native VIP Program, which aligns active traders with ecosystem success by distributing 30% to 50% of platform fee revenue back to high-volume users. With annualized protocol revenue currently tracked at $1.07 million, the VIP reward pool distributes hard USDC yield directly back to participants,…