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Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. Corn futures continue their seemingly inexorable march toward $8/bushel as wet and windy weather in the US Midwest...
Chocolate lovers, who are facing price hikes in the wake of record cocoa prices, can take solace in one thing:  the cost of their deliciousness likely will never reach the level of caviar. That...
No matter what legislation comes out of the frenzied health care debate, economists say that it will cost the American taxpayer a great deal. Estimates run the gamut from the Obama...
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter 11. This is due to the...
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota...
2010 is turning out to be the year that big companies return to hiking dividends.  In just the last week we have seen dividend hikes from Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), Boardwalk...
These are this Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised to Market Perform from Underperform at BMO Capital. American Express...
Reuters:   China battle back at US charges about cyber attacks. Reuters:   Under the new Obama proposal, banks may drop private equity assets. Reuters:   Hershey (NYSE:HSY) will not make a...
Reuters:   Obama said he will not let companies who owe the US taxes to bid for government work. Reuters:   Republican Scott Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts putting the Obama...
The Kraft (NYSE:KFT) deal to buy Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) was concluded today at a purchase price of about $19.44 billion. That was all it took to close the deal–a rich offer made and accepted. It was...
This week’s Unusual Suspects are not just about earnings season, despite the deluge and onslaught we are about to see.  We have a watch for events this week in shares of Acorda Therapeutics, Inc....
Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.14 PM EST  Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP) may have hired a banker to put itself on the block (Barron’s) Updated 1.14 PM  Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) may fire 50% of...
Reuters: China defended itself against Google’s (GOOG) censorship changes. Reuters:   Regulators will face the panel looking at the credit crisis causes. Reuters:   The capex outlook in Japan...
Cadbury plc (NYSE: CBY) may have just found out that it might need to be a bit more receptive to Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) in the buyout process, if it even wants to get a buyout at ANY price.  A...
By Douglas A, McIntyre One way to fight a hostile takeover is to find a “white knight”. Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) is doing just that in clandestine meetings with Hershey (NYSE:HSY). The meetings are no...