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Joey Chestnut The Patriot? Reigning Champ Shuns Chinese-Backed Hot Dogs For 'Impossible' American Ones
Thursday, July 4, 2024 - 10:17am | 782Read More...For the first time in years, 16-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut will not be competing in the annual Fourth of July tradition. Yet, the competitor — undefeated since 2015 — may have made a choice that embodies the spirit of the Fourth of July. What Happened: The event...
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Hog Processing Shutdown Cancels 100 Semi-Truck Deliveries Daily
Monday, April 13, 2020 - 5:52pm | 881Read More...The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day. The plant, which has 3,700 employees, is linked to hundreds of cases of coronavirus in the state....
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Smithfield Closes One Of Nation's Largest Pork Plants, Says Meat Supply 'Close To The Edge'
Monday, April 13, 2020 - 10:18am | 444Read More...The COVID-19 economic shutdown may soon be impacting Americans’ dinner tables. On Sunday, Smithfield Foods announced it is closing its Sioux Falls, South Dakota facility until further notice, and experts say the closure could threaten the nation’s pork supply. The Smithfield plant...
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Slaughterhouse Scouting Is Shaking Up Food Processing Stocks
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 1:30pm | 428Read More...Smithfield Foods is reportedly scouting for U.S. and European beef and poultry assets to purchase to bring Smithfield in line with its competition. The move will diversify the world’s largest pork producer’s assets, as the food company makes a move to enter chicken and beef industries...
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Consumers Still Demanding Bacon, Despite Record-High Pork Prices
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 12:49pm | 623Read More...It's been a roller-coaster year for the nation's pork industry. Rising demand, the higher cost of imported pork, the ongoing drought in some major agricultural regions and the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) that has killed millions of piglets, have all reportedly combined to...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of September 2
Sunday, September 1, 2013 - 11:40am | 958Read More...This holiday shortened week will see a sprinkling of off-season quarterly reports from the likes of H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) and retailer Dollar General (NASDAQ: DG) to truck maker Navistar International (NYSE: NAV) and Smith & Wesson (NYSE: SWHC). Here is a quick look at analysts'...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of June 10
Monday, June 10, 2013 - 6:29am | 978Read More...Things will be quiet on the earnings front again this week, with H&R Block and PVH the only S&P 500 members on the schedule. Here is a quick look at the expectations for those results, as well as from Navistar, Lululemon Athletica, Smithfield Foods and some of the week's other most...
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Barron's Recap: Should Pot Be Legal?
Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 8:03pm | 853Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the case for the legalization of marijuana, the hidden costs in tech and the prospects for Intel, Waste Management and recent spinoffs. Cover Story "Should Pot Be Legal?" by Thomas G. Donlan. According to the Pew Research Center, 52 percent of Americans now...
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Pre-Thanksgiving Earnings Previews: Campbell Soup, Tyson Foods and More
Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:01pm | 734Read More...After J.M. Smucker (NYSE: SJM) posted higher fiscal second-quarter results and lifted its outlook on Friday, more big food processing companies are on the schedule to share earnings this week leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. They are Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB), H.J....
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of September 3
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 6:36am | 674Read More...UPDATE: Campbell Soup reported Tuesday morning and exceeded expectations. Shares traded up almost 10%. Things will be quiet on the earnings front again this holiday-shortened week. The most prominent quarterly reports on the schedule are those from Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB), which is expected to...
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Coca-Cola FEMSA, Family Dollar, Other Dividend Payers on a Roll
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 11:02am | 996Read More...Below are some dividend paying companies with upward price momentum. They all have market capitalizations greater than $1 billion, and share prices that have increased more than 20% within the last 90 days. Agnico-Eagle Mines (NYSE: AEM) is a Canadian miner and producer of gold and other metals....
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of June 11 (KR, PIR, WGO)
Sunday, June 10, 2012 - 11:56am | 863Read More...First-quarter results from Kroger (NYSE: KR) will highlight another quiet week on the earnings front. The consensus forecast calls for year-over-year growth in both per-share earnings and revenues. Others scheduled to post results this week include FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS), Pier 1...
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Atlas Energy, Dillards and Other Dividend Payers on a Roll
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 6:53am | 1056Read More...Here is a quick look some dividend payers with momentum. They all have market caps greater than $1 billion, and their share prices are up more than 30% in the past 90 days. While shares of Advantest (NYSE: ATE) pulled back a bit in the past week, they are trading more than 77% higher year to date...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 5
Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 11:21am | 1105Read More...Most of the S&P 500 have already posted their fourth-quarter results. But a few of them are scheduled to report fiscal quarterly results this week. These include Altera, Brown-Forman, H&R Block and Pall Corp. Also, earnings reports from retailers continue to roll out this week, as they have...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of December 5
Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 11:46am | 860Read More...With investors and analysts keeping one eye on how the holiday shopping season is progressing and another eye on what's happening in the eurozone, there may be little on the earnings front this week that attracts much attention. Among the week's most high profile quarterly reports are those from...
