BLOOMBERG Stocks rallied with emerging markets as investors added to bets that U.S. interest rates will stay lower for longer, keeping growth on track. The MSCI All Country World Index headed for its strongest close since April after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday signalled that officials won’t derail the economy with a premature rate hike. Emerging-market stocks ...

  Bloomberg Corn futures surged into a bull market as production concerns in the U.S. and Brazil, the world’s biggest exporters, sparked optimism that the global grain glut will ease. Dry conditions have beleaguered Brazil’s crops so much that the nation’s chicken processors have been forced to reduce production as domestic consumers compete with foreign buyers for grain supplies. Now, ...

  Bloomberg The death of meaningful U.S. immigration reform, done in by Washington partisanship and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary comments on foreigners, is leaving crops withering in the field and the farm lobby with nowhere to turn as a labor shortage intensifies. Carlos Castaneda watched one-quarter of his Napa cabbages rot in three of his California fields this ...