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Corn futures posted losses of 1 ½ to 5 cents on the Friday session, as September and December both closed the week with a 23 ½ cent loss. Spillover weakness from wheat, rains, and month end pressure is a factor. December was still up 28 cents on the week. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was down 6 cents at $4.10.Weekend rains are expected in parts of Eastern IA, Southern WI/MI, IL, IN, and OH.  Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   CFTC data released on Friday afternoon showed…

Abstract On the fiftieth anniversary of Milton Friedman receiving the Nobel Prize in economics, this article describes the legacy of monetarism: At a time of double-digit inflation in the U.S. and abroad, Friedman’s idea revolutionized monetary policymaking and macroeconomics. In the 1960s and 1970s, his approach led to a new paradigm in money/macroeconomics and monetary policy, including the use of monetary aggregates, monetary rules over discretion, inflationary expectations, and systematic policy to achieve credibility for achieving low inflation. He revived the centuries-old quantity theory of money—making it a useful empirical apparatus that challenged and defeated the prevailing Keynesian orthodoxy that…

Close-up of Databricks company logo on building facade, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, June 7, 2024.Smith Collection/ gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesClear Street, the prime brokerage startup that recently shelved plans for its own IPO, is now aiming to give investors access to some of Silicon Valley’s hottest private companies before they go public.The firm is close to announcing a new platform designed to let accredited investors buy interests in late-stage private companies, starting with AI software titan Databricks, valued this month at $188 billion, CNBC is first to report.”The goal is to remove friction and give more people…

The Bank of Japan said it would hold policy at 1% today (July 31) and that inflation was likely to exceed its target, shortly after both the Japanese and South Korean authorities were suspected of having intervened to prop up their respective currencies.The BoJ’s board decided to hold rates in line with market consensus at its first meeting since June, when it tightened policy to its highest level in 30 years. In an accompanying economic outlook report, the central bank said annual inflation was Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able…

Japan-listed Quantum Solutions expanded the amount of Ether its group may sell through Oct. 30, 2026, after subsidiary GPT Pals Studio sold another 1,000 ETH to help fund its AI data-center push. The group can still sell up to 2,471 ETH, while only 1,714.8 ETH of its present balance is disclosed as outside a lender pledge.The July 30 board action raised the aggregate ceiling from 1,875 ETH to 4,375 ETH. Together with 904 ETH sold on June 16, the latest transaction brought sales under the policy to 1,904 ETH.GPT received $1.903 million in aggregate proceeds, net of transaction fees, at…

“Delaying Social Security until 70 results in an increased monthly payment — and that comes with proportionally higher cost-of-living adjustments.”

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“Part of me jokes that paying for a death certificate would be like buying a lottery ticket.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to those afraid of artificial intelligence and recent Hugging Face hacks on FOX Business. Anthropic announced Thursday that three of its artificial intelligence models accessed the open internet during cybersecurity testing and gained unauthorized access to the systems of three real organizations. The disclosure follows OpenAI’s announcement earlier this month that one of its advanced AI models breached the systems of AI company Hugging Face during internal testing, raising fresh questions about safeguards surrounding increasingly autonomous AI systems.”We found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with…

July 30, 2026 Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Regions Bank and former employee of First Interstate Bank For release at 11:00 a.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement actions listed below: Consent prohibition order against Simon Alberto Gonzalez Former employee of Regions Bank, Birmingham, Alabama Misappropriation of customer funds Consent prohibition order against Ralph A. Mojica Former employee of First Interstate Bank, Billings, Montana Misappropriation of customer funds and embezzlement of Bank funds Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here. For media inquiries, please…