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...Huong and her husband threw in the shovel on their days of toil at the mercy of volatile commodity prices in 2019 and joined vertical agriculture company Orlar....
...Scenarios warn of food and fuel shortage Suez Canal blockage underscores a serious risk for supply chains Japan and Kuwait build 3m barrel oil reserve for south-east Asia Japan Inc. to invest $14bn in...
...Food companies and retailers enjoyed stable growth in 2017 due to growing populations and rising wages in emerging Asian economies....
...Mr Kuok established himself as a commodities trader after World War II, trading in essential foods including rice, sugar and wheat flour....
...Meanwhile, Associated British Foods is continuing to prove that e-commerce needn’t be so important....
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...The media company raised prices in many parts of the world in October, so investors will be watching closely for any sign of churn. Analysts are looking for 54m US subscribers and 61m international....
...The talks by Chinese companies interested in investing in Açu — which has been confirmed by several sources — are part of a surge of investment over the past two years by the Asian country’s biggest companies...
...that will produce dressed and marinated chicken for Jollibee, an Asian food service company....
...China's economy has slowed, pushing commodity prices lower and eroding the profitability and growth of big Asian companies....
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...For example, Bunge and Itochu of Japan in 2012 bet on Asian demand when they opened the first new US grain export terminal in 25 years in Washington state....
...This increase in disposable income is, in theory, good news for consumer goods companies — selling food, soap powder and toiletries — which also gain from lower fuel costs....
...Costco, HP Inc and Tiffany & Co are the highlights on the quarterly earnings calendar....
...And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...Dreyfus and its rivals Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill form the “ABCD “ group of companies that dominate the global flow of food commodities....
...Twitter shares closed up 7 per cent at $28.16 as the company confirmed co-founder Jack Dorsey had become chief executive....
...In US earnings, the newly divided Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc report, as do Analog Devices, Hormel Foods, Dollar Tree, Campbell Soup and Tiffany & Co....
...The attacks have hit the company’s shares, which have already been affected by a downturn in commodities prices. Noble has strongly defended its financial reporting. (FT)....
...Food for thought Too good to ignore Lifting sanctions on Iran should open the way for major oil and gas groups to return to the country, but negotiations for deals will be tough....
...The Upshot explains how the rising dollar is trouble for emerging market companies....
...Greece has rejected a compromise with international creditors in the referendum held on Sunday, raising serious doubts about whether it will remain inside the eurozone....
...(FT) Food for thought 1.5m missing black men In the US, for every 100 black women aged 25-54 and not in jail, there are only 83 black men – a gap that barely exists among whites....
...In 2013, Barry Callebaut bought the processing business of Asian group Petra Foods, cementing its position at the top of the table....
...(FT) Food for thought California dreamin’ What’s the allure of Silicon Valley for Wall Streeters?...
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