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General Electric Co's plan to spin off energy units into a standalone company could attract investors looking for a well-known name in renewables if they can overlook legacy fossil-fuel operations, financial experts said.
Dominican Republic limits pig shipments, uses military to fight hog virus 07/29/2021 | 05:34pm EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields July 29 (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic is halting pig shipments in two provinces and mobilizing the military to contain the deadly hog disease African swine fever, the country's agriculture ministry said on Thursday. U.S. testing of 389 samples from pigs raised on farms and in backyards in the Dominican Republic indicate the contagious disease is in "a small population of backyard pigs from Sánchez Ramírez and Montecristi provinces," according to a ...
6/28/2021 By Mark Weinraub CHICAGO, June 28 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade corn, soybeans and wheat rallied on Monday, with traders focused on forecasts for heat in the western U.S. Midwest that will quickly dry out soils in major production areas. "The forward forecasts have the heat that is presently over the Pacific Northwest to move over the western corn belt early next week, and even touch parts of Iowa by the end of next week," Charlie Sernatinger, global head of grain futures at ED&F Man Capital, said in a note to clients. Some bargain buying also was noted after the market posted
6/11/2021 * Rains in parts of the Midwest, Northern Plains aid crops * Spring wheat futures guide wheat markets lower (Rewrites throughout with U.S. market open, adds analyst comment, updates prices, changes dateline from PARIS/CANBERRA) By Karl Plume CHICAGO, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. corn and soybean futures eased and soyoil futures plunged by their daily trading limit on Friday on concerns about demand for renewable fuel feedstocks after news the White House was considering offering fuel refiners relief from biofuel blending mandates. The Reuters report that the U.S. Environmental Protectio...
4/13/2021 By Mark Weinraub CHICAGO, April 13 (Reuters) - U.S. corn and soybean futures rose on Tuesday, bouncing back from two days of declines on bargain buying by investment funds and concerns about tight supplies of both commodities, traders said. Wheat futures also firmed, with concerns about dry soils limiting U.S. and European production underpinning prices. Corn and soybean futures found support at key technical points overnight. "We go up and down here primarily off of money flow," said Greg Grow, director of agribusiness at Archer Financial Services. "Hard breaks are continued to be ...