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Metals decline as traders wait for Federal Reserve
Metal prices are falling as traders anticipate that the Federal Reserve will start to ease its support for the economy. The price of gold fell $16.20, or 1.2 percent, to $1,366.90 an ounce. Palladium and silver also declined. Only platinum bucked the trend and edged higher. The central bank will ...
Fighters in Nigeria attack school, kill 9 pupils
Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said Tuesday. Bodies of the children in their school uniforms were brought to the local morgue, according ...
Missouri moves to lift ban on foreign farm owners
Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land. The northern Missouri legislator whose amendments to a pair of larger bills helped push the plan ...
Appeals court: BLM must story more grazing plans
The Bureau of Land Management must consider a wider range of grazing alternatives, including some that provide more protections for public land, when it reviews permits in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Western Watersheds Project, which brought the lawsuit ...
Zimbabwe 'Cattle Bank' takes deposits that moo
William Mukurazita's deposit at the bank has four legs and moos. Zimbabwe's first "Cattle Bank" has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans. For many rural poor in this southern African country once wracked by world-record ...
Meeting planned to talk about bovine tuberculosis
North Dakota agriculture and animal health officials are holding a meeting with cattle producers, veterinarians and others to talk about bovine tuberculosis. The state Board of Animal Health reported last week that a beef cow in a herd near the south-central North Dakota town of Solen had tested positive for ...
White House threatens veto of House farm bill
The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, five-year farm bill, saying food stamp cuts included in the legislation could leave some Americans hungry. The House is preparing to consider the bill this week. The legislation would cut $2 billion annually, or around 3 percent, ...
Dominican merchants close border market over ban
Merchants in the Dominican Republic have shuttered a large border market in protest over neighboring Haiti's ban on poultry and egg imports. The Dajabon market was closed Monday seeking to pressure Haiti to drop the ban. A Dominican board says the country sells about 25 million eggs and 8 million ...
Starboard says Smithfield sale undervalues company
One of Smithfield Foods Inc.'s largest shareholders says a $4.72 billion takeover bid from China's largest meat producer falls short of what the company would be worth if sold off piece by piece. In a letter to the Smithfield, Virginia-based pork producer's board of directors on Monday, the New York-based ...
Maine lawmakers uphold LePage veto on 5 bills
Maine lawmakers have failed to get the two-third majority needed to override five vetoes from Republican Gov. Paul LePage. One of the measures considered Monday would have barred the state from contracting for timber harvesting on land under its management if the contractor employs foreign workers for logging. LePage called ...
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