It's been a long and quiet week in both the markets and market-making (or breaking) news, but here are some things to keep you up at night:
Do you ever wonder why weather services issue special weather bulletins headlining that cold temperatures might cause damage to winter wheat and then the story itself says there will probably not be any damage? I guess it's slow these days for everyone. It is going to get cold a long ways south and east over the next several days, and there is little snow cover, as the map below shows. This cold weather follows a period of some warm temperatures across the southern Plains, which remains dry. The problem is it's too early to make any reasonable assessment of possible crop damage.
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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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Kolkwitzia amabilis /kɒlˈkwɪtsiə əˈmæbɪlɪs/,[2] commonly known as beauty bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae. It is the sole species in genus Kolkwitzia.[1] It is a deciduous shrub grown as an ornamental plant. In China, where it originated, the plant is cal...
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventer), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus.[2] It is one of fourteen species of marmots, and is native to mountainous and semi-arid regions of southwestern Canada and western United States, includin...