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The wheat complex posted gains across the three exchanges on Wednesday. Chicago SRW futures were up 2 ¾ to 5 cents at the close. KC HRW was a penny to 4 ¼ cents higher across the board. MPLS spring wheat was 5 to 6 ½ cents in the green on the day.Export Sales data will be released on Thursday morning, with the trade looking for between 300,000 to 550,000 MT of all wheat sales in the week that ended on 9/5.There are some concerns about crops in the Kursk region in Russian being harvested due to the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian…

Corporate finance chiefs entered 2026 with a cautiously constructive macro view, even as tariffs and trade policy remain their top headache for a fifth straight quarter. Average optimism about the U.S. economy ticked up to 61.7 in the first quarter from 60.3 at the end of 2025, according to The CFO Survey, a collaboration of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta.  On their own P&Ls, CFOs expect revenue to rise 5.8% in 2026 and 7% in 2027, only slightly below prior-quarter projections. Price and wage expectations are essentially unchanged, while anticipated unit cost and employment growth…

Bitcoin (BTC) continues to face significant resistance at the $72,000 level, but the bulls have kept up the pressure. Trader Daan Crypto Trades said in a post on X that BTC will have to cross and stay above the $72,000 resistance area to “test the $80Ks again.”Markets tend to hate uncertainty, but BTC’s resilience since the start of the US and Israel-Iran war shows that traders are not keen to sell at lower levels. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said in a post on X that March has mostly recorded BTC outflows from crypto exchanges. Although the demand is not sufficient to…

Investors purchased just over 32% of all single-family residential properties sold in Q4 2025, down slightly from 34% in Q3 but still above 30% for the third straight quarter, data provider BatchData reported. In total, investors bought 1.32 million homes in 2025, a 4.5% decline from 1.39 million in 2024. Roughly 18% of the nation’s 86 million single-family homes are now investor owned.  The biggest landlords, those with 1,000 or more homes, continued to sell into the market. They unloaded 5,970 properties in Q4 while buying only 4,336, marking an eighth consecutive quarter as net sellers; over the full year, they sold 20% more homes than they purchased.   “While…

May WTI crude oil (CLK26) on Tuesday closed up +4.22 (+4.79%), and May RBOB gasoline (RBK26) closed up +0.1731 (+5.82%).  Crude oil and gasoline prices settled sharply higher on Tuesday, recovering some of Monday’s losses amid concerns that the conflict in the Middle East could escalate.Crude prices rise on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have taken steps toward joining the Iran war, potentially signaling an escalation of the fighting.  Saudi Arabia agreed to give the US military access to King Fahd Air Base, and the UAE closed an Iranian-owned…

Lombard, a company building Bitcoin-based lending infrastructure, will team with Bitwise Asset Management to enable institutions to earn yield and borrow against Bitcoin (BTC) without moving assets out of custody, aiming to unlock hundreds of billions of dollars in Bitcoin held in institutional custody.The partnership was announced Tuesday at the Digital Asset Summit in New York. Jacob Phillips, CEO and co-founder of Lombard, told Cointelegraph: The breakthrough is Bitcoin Smart Accounts—connecting two previously isolated worlds: institutional custody and onchain finance.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Bitwise will develop yield strategies combining DeFi lending with tokenized real-world assets, while Morpho, a decentralized…

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26) today is down -0.15 (-0.96%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26) is down -1.80 (-0.40%).Today’s plunge in crude oil prices (CLK26) by more than -7% has sparked long liquidation in sugar futures.  The weakness in crude prices undercuts ethanol prices and may encourage the world’s sugar mills to decrease ethanol production and boost sugar output.   Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   Sugar prices still have some support amid supply disruptions from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.  According…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) failure to close the week above the 200-week exponential moving average (EMA) on Sunday put it at risk of another downward leg over the coming weeks or months.Key takeaways:Bitcoin price signals “structural weakness” with failure to close week above a key trend line.Analysts say the next breakdown clears path for another sell-off toward $46,000.The $47,000 level features as a deep structural support for Bitcoin. Bitcoin price weakness sparks sub-$50,000 targetsData from TradingView showed BTC/USD trading at $71,190, or 6% higher than its intraday low of $67,300.The pair had failed to produce a weekly close above the 200-weekly EMA on…

Resolv Labs moved Sunday to reassure users after an exploit hit the issuance mechanics of its USR stablecoin, knocking the token off its dollar peg and prompting decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols with exposure to move quickly to contain any fallout.Cointelegraph reported earlier Sunday that an attacker exploited USR’s minting mechanics, creating tens of millions of unbacked tokens and dumping them through DeFi pools, which broke the stablecoin’s peg and prompted Resolv to pause protocol functions as it assessed the damage.The token dropped as low as $0.14 (86% below its intended $1 price) after the exploit before rebounding to $0.42 at…

Cotton futures were down 3 to 36 points in the 2026 contracts on Friday, with deferred contracts up 8 to 32 points. May was 146 points in the green this week. Crude oil was up $2.67 on the day to $98.81, with the US dollar index up $0.237 to $99.295. Commitment of Traders data showed specs liquidating a large portion of their net short position in the week ending on 3/17, cutting it by 26,549 contracts. That was the largest Tuesday/Tuesday reduction to a net short position on record and took the net short to 40,205 contracts. Don’t Miss a Day:…