Archive for the May 7, 2017
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Chicago Board of Trade corn futures settled down on Thursday on a falling wheat market and the Midwest weather outlook, traders said. CBOT July corn futures closed down 8-1/4 cents at $3.66-1/2 per bushel. Forecasts
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US natural gas futures on Thursday fell to its lowest in a week on a bigger-than-expected storage build and forecasts for little heating or cooling demand through mid-May. The US Energy Information Administration said utilities
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara urged cocoa farmers to raise production and quality and said a 40 percent fall in global cocoa prices this season had hurt the nation's economy and budget. Bumper crops in
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Good weather in Argentina allowed soya harvesting to advance by 16.8 percentage points over the last seven days, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said in its weekly grains report on Thursday, with 55 percent of
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Gold demand in Asia rose this week, helped by a correction in prices, but traders said some buyers have held back from purchases while they wait for bullion prices to drop further. Analysts said gold
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Rice prices rose on thin supply in India and as exporters in Thailand rushed to fill orders amid a slow off-season harvest, while Vietnam markets were quiet after a three-day holiday. India's 5 percent broken
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Trade activity picked up slightly on the cotton market on Saturday in the process of trading, dealers said. The official spot rate was unchanged at Rs 6700, they said. In ready session, 3600 bales of
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Warren Buffett on Saturday faulted Wells Fargo & Co's previous management for failing to take action immediately upon learning that its employees were signing up customers for bogus accounts, causing a national scandal. Buffett spoke
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Loans for home buyers in Beijing dropped 20 percent in the second to fourth weeks of April compared with the previous three weeks, state media said on Saturday, a sign that a flurry of tough
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German government officials have proposed giving Britain access to the European Union's single market in return for a fee, Focus magazine said on Saturday citing a Finance Ministry report. The 35-page report on the potential
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