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...& Co raised similar concerns....
...Futures trading suggested that selling would resume on Wall Street as well after the S&P 500 rose 6 per cent on Tuesday in response to the pledged support measures....
...Among US agricultural stocks, tractor maker Deere & Co was down 1.2 per cent, while Caterpillar was down 1.6 per cent....
...Mr Choe, president at Charlesbank, will succeed Michael Eisenson, who will continue to serve as co-chairman alongside Kim Davis....
...Apple’s shares were up 0.3 per cent for 2016, compared with a 9.1 per cent gain for the S&P 500 technology index....
...Deere & Co’s efforts to cut costs were cheered by investors on Friday with the share price rising sharply....
...Deere shares fell sharply after the largest maker of tractors and other agricultural equipment cut its sales and profit forecast for this year....
...Sarah Wood, Unruly co-chief executive, noted a contrast between the high emotions of 2015 ads, which included a much-derided spot from insurer Nationwide about a dead child, and 2016’s more sanguine fare...
...The S&P 500 slid 0.6 per cent to 2,067.64, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.7 per cent to 17,440.59. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1 per cent to 5,039.78....
...(FT) US-Japan defence pact The duo signed new defence agreements allowing for greater military co-operation in the event of a conflict in the East China Sea or North Korea....
...Tractor Supply was a leader on the S&P 500 as its shares advanced 16 per cent to $71, after third-quarter earnings and sales comfortably beat expectations....
...The S&P 500 ended the session flat at 2,039.82, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1 per cent to 17,634.74 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.2 per cent to 4,688.54....
...The S&P 500 gained 0.1 per cent to 2,039.33, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.2 per cent to 17,652.79. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.1 per cent to 4,680.14....
...US earnings later include those of tractor maker Deere & Co, Campbell Soup and Footlocker....
...Deere & Co, the world’s largest maker of agricultural equipment, has been similarly downbeat....
...Carlsberg announced this week that Cees ’t Hart, chief executive of Dutch dairy multinational FrieslandCampina, would take over from Mr Rasmussen in June....
...Far from suppressing the book, co-founder and chief executive Larry Page has supplied a fawning foreword....
...Analysts expect revenues at S&P 500 companies to grow 4.5 per cent after two straight quarters of declines, according to S&P Capital IQ, while earnings growth is expected to be 6.6 per cent....
...P 500 down -0.83% at 1,546 Bovespa down -0.81% at 55,577 Asia Nikkei 225 down -2.35% at 12,339 Topix down -1.85% at 1,039 Hang Seng down -0.50% at 22,115 Shanghai Composite up +0.17% at 2,328 MSCI Asia...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: DOWN Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -21.61 (-0.17%) at 12,327 Topix down -1.48 (-0.14%) at 1,039 Hang Seng down -29.44 (-0.13%) at 23,061 US markets S&P 500 up +5.04...
...Emerging Market Index down -0.11% at 1,045 Europe FTSE up +0.27% at 6,706 RTS up +0.99% at 1,394 Warsaw Wig up +0.34% at 46,149 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.06% at 1,245 Americas DJIA down -0.28% at 15,233 S&...
...largest private equity pool ever raised for the region, with its formal close expected to be announced in early 2013. http://reut.rs/UVGMVV Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index down -0.37% at 1,039...
...But the resulting rally in food commodities meant that 2012 was a good year for agribusinesses from trading houses to tractor makers....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.6 per cent to 19,039.15 while China’s Shanghai Composite index gained 1.1 per cent to 2,373.31....
...The Nasdaq was up 1.9 per cent to 3,039.88. The most heavily weighted stock on the index, Apple , continued to guide the Nasdaq’s rise, once again hitting an all-time high....
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