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CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly higher in early trading Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mar. corn was unchanged at $4.40 a bushel. Mar. wheat rose by 0.25 cent at $5.21 a bushel. Mar. oats rose by 1.25 cents at $2.82 a bushel. Jan. soybeans rose by 0.25 cent at $10.72 a bushel. Beef was higher and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dec. live cattle was up 0.53 cent at $2.31 a pound. Jan. feeder cattle rose by 1.4 cents at $3.41 a pound. Feb. hogs gained 0.1 cent at $.84 a pound. Source

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Australia allrounder Cameron Green became the most expensive overseas player in Indian Premier League history when he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.7 million at the 2026 auction held on Tuesday. The fee for Green, who is playing in the Ashes test series against England, narrowly tops the previous record amount (in local Indian rupee) which Kolkata paid for his compatriot, Mitchell Starc, ahead of the 2024 edition. It made Green the third costliest IPL player of all time, behind India internationals Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer, ahead of his third season in the tournament. He previously played for Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the defending champion, before missing the 2025 season after back surgery. Kolkata held the biggest remaining purse for the auction and also paid around $2 million for Sri Lanka pacer Matheesha Pathirana, making him the second most expensive purchase of the 2026 event. Next came both spinning allrounder Prashant Veer and wicketkeeper Kartik Sharma, who were both bought by Chennai Super Kings for around $1.5 million. They became the most expensive uncapped players signed in an IPL auction. Some 359 shortlisted players — representing 10 overseas countries, plus India — went under the hammer in Abu Dhabi to fill up the IPL squads for the 2026 season that starts in March and runs through to May. Players set their base price and the highest bidder wins. Rajasthan Royals and then Chennai battled with Kolkata for Green’s signature. Other headline overseas signings included South Africa’s David Miller and England’s Ben Duckett for Delhi Capitals, West Indies’ Jason Holder for Gujarat Titans and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock for Mumbai. Kolkata also bought Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman and New Zealanders Finn Allen and Tim Seifert. ___ AP cricket: https://apnews.com/hub/cricket Source

La representante saliente de Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, anunció el lunes su compromiso con Brian Glenn, un experto pro-Trump que trabaja para la cadena de noticias de extrema derecha Real America’s Voice. “¡Felices para siempre!”, publicó Greene en X. Glenn, principal corresponsal de la Casa Blanca para la cadena alineada con MAGA, también compartió el compromiso en las redes sociales con una foto en la que abraza a Greene mientras ella muestra su anillo de compromiso. El anuncio se produjo semanas después de que Greene tuviera un desacuerdo público con el presidente Donald Trump y anunciara que renunciaría al cargo en enero, señalando que quería evitar unas primarias difíciles. Trump la ha llamado “traidora” y ha dicho que apoyará otra candidatura republicana para su escaño en la Cámara de Representantes. Greene, quien fue una ferviente partidaria de Trump desde su llegada al Capitolio en 2021, insiste en que el presidente se ha centrado demasiado en la política exterior durante su segundo mandato y no está haciendo lo suficiente para impulsar su agenda interna. Ella, junto con su colega republicano Thomas Massie, ha sido una de las críticas más vehementes de la gestión del Departamento de Justicia de los expedientes del caso Jeffrey Epstein. Glenn, por su parte, criticó duramente al presidente de Ucrania Volodymyr Zelensky por no usar traje en la Casa Blanca, en un polémico evento en la Oficina Oval en febrero. Greene y Glenn se conocieron en 2022 y comenzaron a ser vistos públicamente a principios del año siguiente, después de que ambos iniciaran los trámites de divorcio de sus primeros matrimonios, según el Washington Post. Los próximos pasos en la carrera de Greene siguen siendo inciertos. CNN informó previamente que la congresista de Georgia, quien a principios de este año era considerada posible candidata para la reñida contienda por el Senado de su estado, actualmente no tiene planes de postularse. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2025 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. Source

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street following mixed data on the U.S. economy, which did little to clear up uncertainty about where interest rates may be heading. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% in early trading Tuesday. It’s a bit below the all-time high it set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%. Treasury yields were mixed after one report said the unemployment rate was at its worst level last month since 2021, but employers also added more jobs than economists expected. A separate report said sales at U.S. retailers and restaurants were unchanged in October. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. Wall Street inched slightly lower early Tuesday ahead of the release of U.S. employment and inflation reports that could drive the direction of interest rates. Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.2% before the bell Tuesday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged. Nasdaq futures lost 0.2%. Shares in Roomba maker iRobot sank more than 20% in premarket trading after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That was on top of a nearly 73% decline on Monday. The company known for its robotic vacuums said it doesn’t expect any disruptions to its devices as it is taken private. Ford Motor Co. shares ticked up a little more than 1% after the automaker announced Monday that it is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand. Ford, which has poured billions of dollars into electrification along with most of its industry peers, said it will no longer make the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. The main focus on Wall Street this week will be several big updates on how the U.S. economy is faring. Economists expect the jobs report from November, due Tuesday, to show employers added 40,000 more jobs than they cut during the month. An update on inflation Thursday is forecast to show U.S. consumers paid prices that were 3.1% higher in November than a year before. Investors are hoping that the job market will weaken by just enough to get the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, but not so much that the economy slips into recession. Lower rates help boost the economy and prices for investments, but also may worsen inflation. Economists expect Tuesday’s report to show the unemployment rate at 4.4%, which would keep it near its worst level since 2021. Also coming Thursday is the government’s latest data on retail sales. In Europe at midday, Germany’s DAX lost 0.4%, while the CAC 40 in Paris edged 0.2% lower. Britain’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.5%. In Asian trading, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 declined 1.6% to 49,383.29 as preliminary factory data showed manufacturing slowing slightly. The S&P Global Flash purchasing managers index rose to 49.7 from 48.7 in November on a scale of up to 100 where 50 marks the cut off for expansion. Investors are watching Japanese data carefully ahead of a Bank of Japan policy meeting on Friday that is widely expected to result in an interest rate hike that could rattle world bond, currency and cryptocurrency markets. Chinese markets also retreated after figures for November, released Monday, came in weaker than expected. Retail sales rose at their slowest rate since 2022, during the pandemic, at 1.3% from a year earlier in November. Lending and investment also weakened. “Overall, the data set confirms a loss of momentum into (the) year-end and is consistent with our growth forecasts that moderating to around 4%” in the last quarter of this year, Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank said in a report. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.5% to 25,235.41, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 1.1% to 3,824.81. South Korea’s Kospi gave up 2.2% to 3,999.13 as technology shares dropped. Computer chipmaker SK Hynix skidded 4.3%, while Samsung Electronics fell 1.9%. In Taiwan, the Taiex shed 1.2%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.4% to…

PGA Tour Champions PNC CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Orlando, Florida. Course: Ritz-Carlton GC. Yardage: 7,106. Par: 72. Prize money: $1.085 million. Winner’s share: $200,000. Television: Saturday, 1-2:30 p.m. (Peacock), 2:30-6 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Peacock), 1:30-4:30 p.m. (NBC). Defending champions: Bernhard and Jason Langer. Last tournament: Europe won the Skechers World Champions Cup. Charles Schwab Cup champion: Stewart Cink. Notes: The 36-hole scramble is for players who have won majors, senior majors or LPGA majors, along with The Players Championship. What started as the “Father-Son” now includes champion and family member. … Former U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland makes his tournament debut with his father, Dan. … Tiger Woods is recovering from back surgery and is not playing with his son, Charlie, for the first time since 2019. … The field includes two women. Annika Sorenstam again plays with her son, Will, while Nelly Korda plays with her father, Petr. … Bernhard Langer goes for his seventh title in the PNC Championship. … Davis Love III returns, playing with son Dru. They won in 2018. Dru Love previously had an Asian Tour card. … Lee Trevino is playing again. He has not missed the PNC Championship since it began in 1995. … Steve Stricker is playing with daughter Izzi, who plays at the University of Wisconsin. Next tournament: Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai on Jan. 22-24. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions ___ European tour and Sunshine Tour AFRASIA BANK MAURITIUS OPEN Site: Bel Ombre, Mauritius. Course: Heritage La Reserve GL. Yardage: 7,357. Par: 72. Prize money: $1.2 million. Winner’s share: $200,000. Television: Thursday-Friday, 3:30-8:30 a.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 4-8:30 a.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1-6 a.m. (Golf Channel). Defending champion: John Parry. Race to Dubai leader: Jayden Schaper. Last week: Jayden Schaper won the Alfred Dunhill Championship. Notes: This is the final tournament of the year that earns official world ranking points. Ryan Gerard (No. 57) is playing with hopes of moving into the top 50 to earn a spot in the Masters. … Daniel Brown, who earned a PGA Tour card when Laurie Canter joined LIV Golf, can move into the top 50 from (No. 72) with a victory. … Jayden Schaper was a runner-up at the Nedbank Challenge and won the following week at the Alfred Dunhill Championship. That has moved the South African into the top 100 in the world ranking. … Fred Biondi of Brazil is in the field after the former NCAA champion at Florida failed to earn a PGA Tour card or full Korn Ferry Tour status at Q-school in Florida last week. … John Parry won last year after winning three times on the Challenge Tour. … This is the 10th playing of the Mauritius Open since it became part of the European tour schedule in 2015. This is the fourth consecutive year it has been the last official tournament of the year. Next tournament: Dubai Invitational on Jan. 15-18. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/ and https://sunshinetour.com/ ___ PGA Tour Last week: Andrew Novak and Lauren Coughlin won the Grant Thornton Invitational. Next tournament: Sony Open on Jan. 15-18. FedEx Cup champion: Tommy Fleetwood. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/ ___ LPGA Tour Last week: Lauren Coughlin and Andrew Novak won the Grant Thornton Invitational. Next tournament: Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on Jan. 29-Feb. 1 Race to CME Globe champion: Jeeno Thitikul. Online: https://www.lpga.com/ ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf Source