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Brazilian Corn Prices Expected To Drop In Q1

Brazilian corn prices are expected to decrease in the first quarter of 2017 due to a large domestic surplus, the economic research centre of the Unive...

Wholesale Prices In U.S. Rise For Third Time in Four Months

Wholesale prices in the U.S. rose for the third time in four months, boosted by increasing fuel costs that are pushing inflation higher throughout the econ...

Wal-Mart Said To Be Cutting Hundreds Of Workers This Month

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is making another round of job cuts as part of CEO Doug McMillon’s efforts to streamline operations, according to a person...

US May Retail Sales Dip Due To Cautious Shoppers

US retail sales numbers for May showed a slight slowdown in bigger ticket sectors as still-cautious shoppers weighed their options carefully, research agen...

Sears To Sell Craftsman, Shut 150 Stores

Sears Holdings Corp. agreed to sell its Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. for about $900 million, marking CEO Edward Lampert&rsqu...

Amazon Launches New Private-Label Snack Line

Online giant Amazon is pushing its way further into the grocery sector with its new private-label food offering, a snack line called Wickedly Prime. It is...

America’s Cheap-Liquor Billionaire Looks Abroad As Growth Slows

You may not have heard of America’s richest liquor billionaire, but odds are you’ve sipped one of his offerings. Or, more likely, chugged...

The $50 Chicken: Kosher Gets Ethical, and More Expensive

Heritage chicken is back! When did it go missing, you might wonder, and what is it? But to some it's a big deal, so KOL Foods, a small meat company base...