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Corn futures are trading with contracts up 4 to 5 ½ cents across the nearbys on Monday. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price is up 4 1/2 cents to $4.34 1/4. USDA reported a couple private export sales of corn this morning, with 380,000 MT (220,000 MT for 2025/26 and 160,000 MT for 2026/27) to Mexico and 128,000 MT of 2025/26 to South Korea.  Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   USDA’s FGIS tallied corn export shipments at 1.691 MMT (66.56 mbu) during the week ending on May 7. That…

Commercial bankruptcy activity accelerated sharply in April as elevated borrowing costs, mounting consumer credit stress and inflationary pressures continued to weigh on businesses and households across the U.S., according to new data from bankruptcy filing specialist Epiq AACER and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Commercial Chapter 11 filings climbed 42% year-over-year in April 2026 to 644 cases, up from 454 filings in April 2025. Total commercial filings rose 21% to 3,060 from 2,520 a year earlier, signaling broadening financial distress across multiple sectors of the economy. Small business restructurings also continued to gain momentum. Subchapter V elections, the streamlined Chapter 11…

Dubai, U.A.E, May 11th, 2026, Chainwire MultiBank Group’s crypto arm mb.io, brings African gold on-chain by partnering with Kings Orbis, EON3 Group, and Mavryk. Institutional gold tokenisation programme to be powered by mb.io RWA, with vaulting in Dubai under LBMA-approved custody, dedicated supply from EON3 Group, and Mavryk as the Layer 1 blockchain and RWA tech infrastructure partner. mb.io, the crypto arm of MultiBank Group, has confirmed an institutional partnership with Kings Orbis, EON3 Group Ghana Ltd, and Mavryk to develop an institutional-grade tokenisation programme for physically-backed gold sourced from West Africa. The partnership unites four institutional roles in a…

Bitmine owns more than 4.31% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 86% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Crypto Spring has commenced and like past cycles, investor sentiment and conviction are muted and bearish even as crypto prices strengthen As reflected in this edition of Tom Lee’s Chairman’s Message Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Friday closed up +0.84%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up +0.02%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed up +2.35%.  June E-mini S&P futures (ESM26) rose +0.79%, and June E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQM26) rose +2.37%.Stock indexes settled higher on Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 posting new record highs.  Chipmaker and AI-infrastructure stocks led the overall market higher on Friday, offsetting concerns about the Iran war.  Stronger-than-expected corporate earnings are pushing stocks higher.  Weakness in software stocks on Friday weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Join 200K+ Subscribers: Find out…

Cotton futures are trading with 140 to 155 points in the green on Friday. The US dollar index is $0.139 lower at $97.805. Crude oil is up $1.03 at 95.84 at midday.USDA’s Export Sales report now has cotton sale commitments at 10.82 million RB, which is 1% below the same period last year. That is 96% of the USDA estimate for full year cotton exports and behind the 103% average. Actual shipments are 7.72 million RB, or 69% of the USDA number and near the 70% average.   Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free…

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 115,000 in April, well above expectations of 55,000, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. Revisions to prior months were mixed, with February payrolls revised down by 23,000 to -156,000 and March revised up by 7,000 to 185,000. On net, employment over the two-month period was 16,000 lower than previously reported. Both the labor force participation rate, at 61.8%, and the employment-population ratio, at 59.1%, changed little in April. Job gains were concentrated in health care, transportation and warehousing, and retail trade, suggesting continued demand in service-oriented and logistics sectors. At the same time, federal…

Andy Paterson has been named managing director and regional director at Glenmede, a wealth and investment management firm. Paterson will lead Glenmede’s strategy and business execution across the Pittsburgh region, overseeing a team of planning, fiduciary, and investment professionals, and he will focus on accelerating organic growth and deepening client relationships. Paterson will be based at the firm’s Pittsburgh office, and will be reporting to Adam Douberly, Glenmede’s director of regional markets. Prior to joining Glenmede, Paterson served as CEO of two single-family offices.  Brian Haloossim has been tapped as president of Lido Advisors, and founding partner Ken Stern has been appointed to co-CEO. Haloossim will focus…

June Nymex natural gas (NGM26) on Friday closed down -0.012 (-0.43%).Nat-gas prices gave up an early advance on Friday and settled lower amid a decline in flows to US liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, which boost supplies in the domestic market and expand inventories.   Feedgas to LNG plants decreased to 17.7 bcf on Friday, down -4.6% w/w as some export facilities reduced output due to seasonal maintenance. Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   On April 17, nat-gas prices tumbled to a 1.5-year nearest-futures low amid robust…

London, United Kingdom, May 8th, 2026, Chainwire GoBTC Pay is a protocol that lets consumers make native and instant payments on Bitcoin’s base layer.  GoMining launches its own mining pool to prioritize GoBTC Pay transaction confirmation, targeting a 12-hour final on-chain settlement by the end of 2026. The launch marks a strategic expansion for GoMining, a platform with 5 million users. GoBTC Pay extends this ecosystem into everyday payments. GoMining launches GoBTC Pay a Bitcoin payment protocol that delivers on what the 2008 whitepaper promised: peer-to-peer electronic payments. GoBTC Pay enables free and instant Bitcoin payments on the core Bitcoin…