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Corn Prices Tumble As Supply Outlook Improves In Top Exporters

Corn futures in Chicago fell by the most in three years and prices slumped in São Paulo state, as the supply outlook improves in the US and Brazil,...

Grains Decline As U.S. Sees Global Supply Exceeding Estimates

Grain prices dropped in Chicago after the U.S. government said that supplies will be bigger than analysts expected. World wheat inventories in the 2015-...

Jack Daniel’s Maker Beats Estimates As Whiskey Demand Grows

Brown-Forman Corp.’s quarterly sales and profit topped analysts’ estimates after the maker of Jack Daniel’s benefited from resurgent whis...

Corn Enters Bull Market On A Hot Start For U.S. Growing Season

Corn futures surged into a bull market on Monday as production concerns in the U.S. and Brazil, the world’s biggest exporters, sparked optimism that...

No Room In U.S. Grain Silos Means Dumping Wheat In Parking Lots

Some American wheat farmers are not only going to lose money on every bushel they harvest this month, many won’t have a proper place to store it....

Eggless Mayo Maker Taps Investors To Become Vegan Conglomerate

Hampton Creek Inc., best known for making an eggless version of mayonnaise, is looking to raise fresh capital to fuel its expansion into a vegan conglomera...

Wal-Mart's U.K. Pain Holds Lessons For The Whole Chain: Gadfly

Investors cheered Walmart's first-quarter results last week, triggering the biggest one-day jump in the big-box retailer's shares since October 2008. But t...

Wal-Mart Surges After Results Signal Retail Fears Are Overblown

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. climbed as much as 8.8 percent in early trading after its first-quarter results beat analysts’ estimates, tamping down fears tha...