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S&P 500 Movers: ALB, CSCO

ALB, CSCO, AKAM, HPE

In early trading on Thursday, shares of Cisco Systems topped the list of the day's best performing components of the S&P 500 index, trading up 16.2%. Year to date, Cisco Systems registers a 53.6% gain. And the worst performing S&P 500 component thus far on the day is A

Dow Movers: MSFT, CSCO

MSFT, CSCO, UNH, NVDA

In early trading on Thursday, shares of Cisco Systems topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 16.2%. Year to date, Cisco Systems registers a 53.6% gain. And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is Micro

Cotton Collapsing Early on Thursday

Cotton futures closed the Wednesday session with contracts coming off the midday highs, up 7 to 49 points. The US dollar index was $0.215 higher at $98.395. Crude oil was down $1.18 at $101.00 at the close. A meeting between President Trump and China’s President Xi in Beijing concluded early...

Soybeans Falling Back Following Trump/Xi meeting

Soybeans are trading with 20 to 27 cent losses early on Thursday morning. Futures saw modest strength on Wednesday, with contracts closing fractionally to 3 cents higher on the day. Open interest was up 14,129 contracts on Wednesday. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was up 3 1/4 cents...

Corn Falling Back Early on Thursday

Corn prices are down 6 to 7 cents so far on Thursday morning. Futures posted mixed action at the Wednesday close, with contracts within a penny of either side of unchanged. Open interest was up 10,445 contracts on Wednesday. There were 17 deliveries against May futures overnight, with the contract...

Bessent sees 'substantial disinflation' ahead as Warsh takes over the Fed

Bessent said the energy-fed inflation surge recently is likely to reverse as the U.S. is "going to keep pumping."

Ex-Div Reminder for Carlyle Group (CG)

CG, GPZ

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 5/18/26, Carlyle Group Inc (Symbol: CG) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.35, payable on 5/28/26. As a percentage of CG's recent stock price of $49.74, this dividend works out to approxima

Reminder - Nuveen Real Asset Income and Growth Fund (JRI) Goes Ex-Dividend Soon

JRI

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 5/15/26, Nuveen Real Asset Income and Growth Fund (Symbol: JRI) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.1335, payable on 6/1/26. As a percentage of JRI's recent stock price of $13.13, this dividen

ES Ex-Dividend Reminder - 5/18/26

ES, FXU

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 5/18/26, Eversource Energy (Symbol: ES) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.7875, payable on 6/30/26. As a percentage of ES's recent stock price of $68.57, this dividend works out to approxi

Reminder - KLAC Goes Ex-Dividend Soon

KLAC

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 5/18/26, KLA Corp (Symbol: KLAC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $2.30, payable on 6/2/26. As a percentage of KLAC's recent stock price of $1877.08, this dividend works out to approximately