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Of the top 100 Vol/OI ratios in Thursday’s trading, 52 unusually active options expire on March 20. Nineteen of the stocks had Vol/OI ratios higher than 23.69. Three will make you money with these options strategies.

Soybeans are posting 5 to 6 cent gains in the nearby contracts on Friday. There were 138 deliveries issue against March soybean futures overnight. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price is up 5 3/4 cents at $10.89 1/2. Soymeal futures are steady to $1.90 lower in the front months,...

Lean hog futures are mixed at midday, with contracts within 20 cents of unchanged. USDA’s national base hog price was reported at $90.46 on Friday morning, down 51 cents from the day prior. The CME Lean Hog Index was 41 cents higher on Feb 25 at $89.12. USDA’s pork carcass...

Cotton futures are posting 30 to 40 point gains at Friday’s midday, with thing March down 81 points. Crude oil futures are up $1.58 per barrel on the day at $66.80. The US dollar index is down $0.135 at $97.605. Export Sales data from Thursday showed 8.75 million RB in...

Live cattle futures are down $2 to $4.12 at midday. Some new selling interest was noted, up 2,199 contracts. Cash trade has come in at $383 dressed in the North, with some $243-245 live across the rest of the country. Feeder cattle futures are $6.25 to $8.25 lower on Friday....

Corn futures are trading with gains of 5 to 6 cents in the front months on Friday. First notice day showed just 9 deliveries overnight all issued by the Bunge house account. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price is up 6 1/4 cents to $4.07 3/4. The spring base...

The wheat complex is rallying across all three markets on Thursday. Chicago SRW futures are 18 to 21 cents higher on Friday. KC HRW futures are trading 18 to 19 cents higher across most contracts. MPLS spring wheat are up 13 to 16 ½ cents so far on the day....

Uber just launched its air taxi service, and the company's autonomous vehicle push is accelerating. Here's what investors need to know.

Michael Burry, the investor immortalized in The Big Short for predicting the subprime mortgage collapse, is raising fresh alarms about Nvidia (NVDA) , the semiconductor giant at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. In a recent Substack post published Thursday, Burry argued that Nvidia’s latest financial disclosures reveal...

Warren Buffett's famous Berkshire shareholder meeting quote from 1979 warns about being complacent in one's investment practice. Here's what lessons investors should take away for today's market.

May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26 ) today is down -0.04 (-0.29%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26 ) is down -0.20 (-0.05%). Sugar prices are slightly lower today after the International Sugar Organization (ISO) forecast a +1.22 million MT sugar surplus in 2025-26, following a -3.46 million...