Credit Suisse announced this week that it will exit its commodity trading business after reporting a second quarter loss of $779 million, much of which is allegedly attributable to the $2.6 billion settlement with the U.S. government.
Tomorrow is the final day of the 2014 Tour de France with today's stage again run in almost a constant rain. This has been the case nearly every day of the race, which we noted early in the event. This continuous rainfall has to have caused some loss of quality on mature crops waiting to be harvested. Some estimates have already downgraded up to a third of the French wheat crop to feed. France did not offer in Egypt's last tender. So far, the wheat market has not reacted. The quality of the U.S. hard red w...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
