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City of Minot January building permits

– Dean Keller, RAK Homes, 3312 and 3314 23rd Ave. NW, twin homes with garages, decks, both $182,000. – William and Karen Fleming, William Patrick Fleming, 609 19th St. SE, move bathroom wall between kitchen and living room, $14,000. – Reinaldo Guitian III, 1905 Highland Dr., remodel, ...

Futures File: Cattle market brings the heat

June Live Cattle futures were up $4.075 for the week, settling at $178.45/cwt. Which is a noteworthy level. The 200-day moving average is $179/cwt, the 100-day moving average is $178.5/cwt and the 50% retracement level is $178.4/cwt. The 50% retracement coming from the contract highs put in ...

Futures File: China loses pop in population

A popular story making the rounds this past week was the population of China decreasing for the second year in a row. Births fell to a record low in 2023 while deaths reached a record high, and the overall population fell by just over 2 million to 1.41 billion. (The population decrease in 2022 ...

Futures FIle: USDA beats dead horse

The January WASDE and Quarterly Stocks Report was released last week, and it put what may be the final nail in the coffin for 2023-24 grain bulls. Production estimates of both corn and soybeans for the 2023 crop year were raised between .5% and 1% in total, which doesn’t sound like much, ...

ND credit unions recover assets in federal dispute

BISMARCK – North Dakota credit unions will receive more than $11.9 million in recovered assets that had previously been denied by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), according to the Dakota Credit Union Association. The federal agency agreed to settle the dispute after a federal ...

Futures File: Middle East gets Western

The Middle East and trouble are no strangers, but the last three months of 2023 saw an increase in turmoil and hot spots to the point of boiling over. The most obvious is the bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israel after the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7 killed 1,200, according to ...