This is Thanksgiving week in the U.S., and the markets will be closed that day. However, this holiday has other implications such as the following:
It is one of the busiest holiday travel periods of the year. It can be severely complicated by adverse weather because of winter conditions across the northern half of the country. It is always on a Thursday, which means Friday is a lame-duck day. Although markets will be open then, they will close an hour early with not many likely to be closely watching them.
Weather usually isn’t a factor for the markets during this time of year because growing season is done in the Northern Hemisphere and just getting started in South America. However, there seem to be more weather-related fact...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
