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Dole CEO Makes $1 Billion Offer for Food Company

Posted: June 11, 2013 at 10:15 am

Fruit and vegetable producer Dole Food Company Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) could be on its way to becoming a privately held company again. The company’s chairman and chief executive, David Murdock, ...
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Corn Brings the Death of Food Inflation

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 1:10 pm

If you have been paying attention to consumer prices and producer prices of late, the drop in the price of oil and other energy related items has been keeping a ...
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EPA Settles Complaint Against Tyson Foods

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 1:15 pm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a consent decree in a complaint against Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) related to multiple releases of anhydrous ammonia at 23 Tyson ...
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Shareholder Attack of Smithfield Has Risks, but Merits Too (SFD, HRL, TSN)

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 11:29 am

Smithfield Foods Inc. (NYSE: SFD) is trading higher on word that a top shareholder called Continental Grain Co. has sent a letter urging the company to consider strategic alternatives. These ...
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Berkshire-Heinz Merger Drives More Value to All Food Giants

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 10:20 am

The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) $28 billion buyout of H.J. Heinz Co. (NYSE: HNZ) is already all over the news. What investors need to consider now is how this ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CMO, CHK, CBB, DD, FB, GG, GFI, KIM, LVS, MANU, QCOM, RGLD, TSN, URI)

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 8:40 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Capstead Mortgage Corp. (NYSE: CMO) cut to Market Perform at JMP Securities. Chesapeake ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 1, 2013: Markets Stronger on Economic Data (VZ, MA, EPD, STZ, UPS, BYI, GDOT, WYNN, CVX, XOM, MAT, MRK, NOV, TSN, CYOU, GCI, HUM, GOLD, RCL, SPG, CLX, ZTS, KERX, FB)

Posted: February 1, 2013 at 4:08 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning on the heels of a solid report on U.S. nonfarm payrolls, which rose less than expected but on top of a large upward ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 31, 2013: Markets Slip Again (HES, STX, QCOMM, FIO, CMA, CTXS, COP, EA, FB, JDSU, LVS, AET, MO, AN, CL, DNKN, MA, PHM, TWC, UPS, BYI, GDOT, WYNN, CVX, XOM, MAT, MRK, NOV, TSN, RIMM, WMS, SGMS, STZ)

Posted: January 31, 2013 at 4:17 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a mixed bag of data on the U.S. economy and mixed earnings results out this morning. In Europe, Germany’s retail sales fell ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 29, 2013: Markets Shake Off Slow Start, Post Gains (STX, TSN, SBUX, ANF, CAT, YHOO, STX, STLD, BSX, DHI, F, BTU, PFE, VLO, AMZN, BRCM, RYL, RHI, ADT, LLL, PSX, NOC, SO, KERX, VMW, OCZ)

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning following not-much in the way of new data and a wait-and-see attitude until tomorrow’s meeting announcement from the FOMC, which began a ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ANF, AM, AHT, BIIB, BMC, CAT, CLH, DLR, EQIX, IDTI, LGF, RT, STX, SBUX, TSN, VMW)

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 9:58 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) raised to Outperform at BMO. ...
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Beef: Prices Rising or Falling?

Posted: January 24, 2013 at 2:03 pm

Last week privately held Cargill Inc. announced that it would close its beef processing plant in Plainview, Texas, due to a drop in the number of cattle available as a ...
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Sanderson Farms Weighed Down by Macro Forces

Posted: December 18, 2012 at 7:30 am

Sanderson Farms Inc. (NASDAQ: SAFM) reported fourth-quarter and full fiscal 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The poultry processing firm reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.41 on ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AKS, AMAT, ADM, ARMH, BWP, CLF, COH, INTC, JOY, PBR, RLGY, RIMM, TDC, TSN, WFC, WFM)

Posted: November 20, 2012 at 8:35 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. AK Steel Corp. (NYSE: AKS) raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — November 19, 2012: Markets Ride High All Day (LH, HAL, RMBS, MO, WSM, LOW, TSN, BRCD, JACK, KKD, QIHU, SCVL, BBY, BWS, CPB, HNZ, HPQ, TECD, BMTI, WMGI, DMND, AAPL)

Posted: November 19, 2012 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following comments after Friday’s meeting between President Obama and Congressional leaders to discuss ways of dodging the fiscal cliff. Some were also expecting ...
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Today’s Market Winners and Losers

Posted: November 19, 2012 at 11:21 am

The stock market is up Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.24%, the Nasdaq up 1.54% and the S&P 500 up 1.48%. Today's winners include a health care ...
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