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Soybeans are showing firmer trade on Tuesday, with contracts up to 1 ¼ cents higher at midday. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price is up 1 1/4 cents at $12.70 3/4. Soymeal futures are up another $4.30, with Soy Oil down 55 to 61 points. USDA’s Crop Progress report from NASS showed 62% of the US soybean…

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, recently reduced the crypto market to three themes he thinks investors should own for years: Bitcoin as a hedge against currency debasement, Zcash as a privacy asset, and a long tokenization cycle involving Ethereum, Solana, Uniswap and related rails. Those remarks were captured in a video…

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Chipmakers led the retreat. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF lost 3% Friday and 10% for the week, its biggest weekly decline since April 2025, amid concerns about competition from China. In South Korea, the Kospi fell 14.5% on the week, its worst since October 2008, as Samsung and SK Hynix tumbled nearly 20% and 25%. Debt…

Most budgets fail because they’re built on assumptions rather than actual spending data. Track every transaction for one full month first and you’ll almost certainly find categories where you’re spending two or three times what you guessed. Build your budget from that reality, not from what you think you spend. Source