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...Prices of bread, pasta, and meat are already rising in Italy, which imports much of its wheat from eastern Europe and 80 per cent of its sunflower oil from Ukraine, as well as large amounts of corn used...
...The 403p offer is a penny above the share’s all-time high in April 2019....
...(FT) China’s record corn purchases send prices soaring China bought a record 11.3m tonnes of corn last year, of which more than a third came from the US....
...But here’s where our convention really earns its corn....
...Adjusted for items, earnings were 75 cents, a penny above Wall Street estimates....
...Adjusted for items, earnings were 75 cents, a penny above Wall Street estimates. Its shares rose 2.6 per cent to $70.52 at midday in New York....
...That is partly because slick marketers are focused on selling us high-fructose corn syrup and easy credit. And it is partly because we are human beings with human frailties....
...Might the market have mistakenly read this as the execution of a single huge order in penny packets and started panicking too?...
...The industry’s self-regulatory body, the National Futures Association, already tacks a one penny fee on each side of a contract to help fund its operations....
...It is lunchtime and he is looking forward to eating the national staple, corn tortillas, with the meat stew he has just picked up from a café. He eats out most lunchtimes....
...Adjusting for one time items, the company reported earnings of 43 cents a share, a penny below Wall Street forecasts....
...One of the more intriguing themes of Mr Buffett’s career has been his big bet on the enduring appeal of sugar — from cane or corn or other sources....
...Prices for the credits, known as Rins, leapt from pennies to more than $1 at the start of 2013....
...In trading and processing businesses, where profit margins are measured in pennies per pound, consolidation can make sense as a way to maximise the capacity of silos and ships....
...If the draft proposal was carried out the credits would be “worth a few pennies,” said Scott Irwin of the University of Illinois....
...That is good news for a company that offers corn and soyabean seeds along with herbicides to farmers....
...The certificates cost just pennies throughout 2012....
...It owes Polar, the maker of Harina Pan corn flour, over a billion dollars....
...Sanderson estimates that every 10 cent jump in the price of corn raises the cost of producing a pound of chicken by about a third of a penny....
...Corn came within pennies of $7 a bushel for the first time since September....
...On Wednesday, corn futures rallied to $7.95 a bushel, up 37 per cent since mid-June and pennies below their all-time high on the Chicago Board of Trade....
...She scraped together £6 (“every penny in every pocket”) and went to the supermarket. “I picked up tomatoes, kidney beans – I went round until I had run out of money....
...His father ran a corn store, his uncles were notaries; their local status gave him social confidence when he joined Giovanni Bellini’s studio as an apprentice, then became an assistant to Giorgione....
...Its greatest amenity today is Els Fogons de Can Llaudes, recommended in the guide-book as being a bit pricey but worth every penny....
...Three weeks ago corn was less than a penny short of $8 per bushel, an all-time high, and analysts warned that prices would need to stay high to keep critically low stocks from running out before harvest...
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