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Ted Turner, the brash media pioneer who built CNN and introduced the world to round-the-clock news, died Wednesday at eighty-seven years old. Turner transformed television as we know it, and his passing closes a chapter on one of the most consequential careers in American media history.
Turning to commodities, soybeans took a notable hit Wednesday, falling between seventeen and twenty-one cents a bushel as crude oil pressure weighed on the complex. The cmdtyView national cash bean price dropped nearly twenty cents to eleven dollars and twenty-four cents, with soymeal futures dragged lower in sympathy. Outside energy markets are clearly setting the tone.
And on the gig economy front, DoorDash is absorbing real costs from rising fuel prices, budgeting one hundred million dollars in driver gas benefits for the first half of two thousand twenty-six alone. Chief Financial Officer Ravi Inukonda says the company is funding that expense by pulling back on planned investments elsewhere, a meaningful trade-off that signals how seriously delivery platforms are managing driver retention in a volatile macro environment.
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