Ryan Dezember

Autumn harvests are underway and America's farmers are reaping record crops. The highest yields ever are expected to result in record U.S. harvests of corn and soybeans, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday in its monthly crop report. The prices of America's top cash crops factor into the cost of making products ranging from motor fuels to meat and contributed to inflation following the Covid lockdowns.

It's official: shares of America's largest wood-pellet exporter are worthless. The New York Stock Exchange said it would delist Enviva's stock on October 22 and that shareholders would receive no recovery.

Packaging Corp. of America shares have surged to a fresh record after the cardboard-box maker surprised Wall Street—and its own executives—by reporting record production and a 26% jump in third-quarter sales. The results come amid doubts about the health of the economy and the strength of the U.S.

A bad October is getting worse for building-materials firms, whose shares are tumbling Tuesday thanks to rising bond yields, disappointing quarterly results from America's most prolific homebuilder and a decline in construction job openings. The 288,000 construction job openings at the end of Septe

Shares of Janus International Group lost about 30% of their value Tuesday after it reported quarterly earnings that fell short of Wall Street's expectations and cut its 2024 sales and profit forecasts by 10% and 24.5%, respectively. At the time, a self-storage-investing mania was spreading among individual investors via podcasts, online investing clubs and internet influencers, who touted self-storage ownership as an easy way to get rich without working too much. Janus CEO Ramey Jackson said that big storage owners, which include stock-market stars like Public Storage and Extra Space Storage, are doing business as usual.

Shares of JELD-WEN Holding are on track to tumble to their worst day ever after the window and door maker slashed its profit forecast and reported quarterly results that fell short of expectations. Along with quality and delivery issues at some of the company's factories, a slump in home-renovation spending and a slowdown in apartment construction, executives blamed a Midwestern retailer's decision to drop JELD-WEN's products in favor of cheaper Chinese-made windows. "Candidly, we'll see how this plays out given the election today and some of the potential supply chain implications longer term based on tariffs, et cetera," said CEO William Christensen.

The prospect of heightened trade disputes with China during a second Trump presidency is pressuring agricultural prices, with soybeans leading the way lower. Soybeans typically account for about half of all U.S. agricultural exports to China, which Trump has pledged to hit with heavy tariffs. Soybe

Gold prices rose to records leading up to the presidential election, but they've slumped ever since, ending today's trading with the biggest weekly price decline since the Covid lockdown in March 2020. Gold futures fell for the seventh time in eight trading sessions since the election and are now 8% off the all-time high of $2,788.50 a troy ounce hit on Oct. 30. Shares of the huge SPDR Gold Shares exchange traded fund—a popular way for individual investors to trade gold—are down 8% from their peak and on a six-day losing streak.

In remote Quebec, mining giant Glencore is turning America’s electronic trash back into treasure.

Shares of Texas Pacific Land are adding to their big run this year following the announcement that the oil-patch property owner will be [added to the S&P 500](https://press.spglobal/2024-11-21-Texas-Pacific-Land-Set-to-Join-S-P-500,-Mueller-Industries-to-Join-S-P-MidCap-400-and-Atlas-Energy-Solu