07/08/2009 07:42AM
1. What is the G8? The G8’s membership comprises the main industrialised countries. It is not an international organisation, nor does it have an administrative staff with a permanent secretariat; it is rather a process that culminates in an annual Summit at which the Heads of State and Government of
03/11/2009 09:28AM
US Hog Prices Gain While Pork Flounders, Create Unusual Gap
KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--A steep rise in cash hog prices and floundering wholesale pork values have resulted in deeply negative fresh pork processing margins. Last week alone, the Midwest direct hog markets gained from $6.75 to nearly $8.00
02/19/2009 04:21PM
BRUSSELS (AFP)--The European Commission on Thursday proposed extra funding for France and Italy in a controversial multi-billion-euro energy project package, which Germany slammed as "a jumble of national wish lists."
The new plans would reduce funding for projects in Britain and Germany.
The Commission
01/06/2009 07:46AM
Grain Comments: The earliest morning futures calls are March corn up 5 to 9 cents. March soybeans up 17 to 22 cents. March CBOT wheat up 4 to 7 cents.US dollar up 116 while crude oil is up $1.22. Oil is above $50!Economic information... Factory orders from the Commerce Department for November
12/17/2008 09:34AM
SMITHFIELD, Va., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) announced today that the merger of Campofrio Alimentacion S.A. ("Campofrio") and Group Smithfield Holdings S.L. ("Groupe Smithfield") has been finalized. The new company will be known as Campofrio Food Group and will
12/16/2008 10:18AM
China To Curb Tumble In Hog Prices; Up Reserves Of Commodities
BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China will initiate measures to prevent possible tumble in domestic hog prices, said the country's economic planner. Pork prices in the country have fallen by 22% from the peak reached at the start of this year on higher
12/08/2008 08:42AM
LONDON (AFP)--The leaders of U.K., France and the European Commission meet in London Monday for talks on the world financial crisis with around 50 leading businessmen and economists.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was to host French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel
10/13/2008 10:00AM
Dow AgroSciences LLC is acquiring the assets of Sudwestsaat GbR (SWS), a hybrid maize company with its headquarters near Rastatt, Baden-Wurttemberg, in Germany. Sudwestsaat GbR (SWS) is a well-established German based hybrid maize company. It was founded in 1997 based on the breeding activities of three
05/15/2008 09:43AM
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--German chancellor, Angela Merkel, told Brazilian reporters that her government's decision to postpone its ethanol blending policy doesn't mean the country is abandoning ethanol, the local Estado newswire reported.
"We just pushed the date a little bit forward," Merkel said,