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FedEx's Weak Results Spark Fears Of A Long And Feeble Recovery
2013-03-22 21:59:10| Air Courier - Topix.net
FedEx stock fell around 7% Tuesday after the company reported Q3 earnings for the fiscal year ending May 2013.
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Did Climate Change Spark the War in Syria?
2013-03-13 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Care2: Could global warming have played a role in instigating the ongoing, and bloody, war that has been going on in Syria for nearly two years, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 and a million Syrians forced to flee from their homes, thousands to other countries? Unprecedented food price rises were fundamental triggers for the Arab Spring, writes Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed in the Guardian. A 2008 global rice shortage led to a steep rise in prices, setting off food riots in the Middle East,...
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Renewable Fuel Mandate Expected to Spark Heated Debate
2013-03-12 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - A study using data from the US Departments of Commerce, Labor and Agriculture conducted by FarmEcon LLC which looked at food affordability in the United States from 1950 to 2005, when the US introduced its renewable fuel mandate, shows increased ethanol production has coincided with dramatic increases in the cost of food production and decreased food affordability.
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Lack of Demand Spark Stalls Cattle Prices
2013-03-09 15:53:00| Beef
Cattle and beef markets ran in opposite directions last week leaving auction sales somewhere in the middle. Keeping in mind that auction trade was hampered by widespread winter storms the previous two weeks, feeder cattle destined for the feedlot traded weak to $3/cwt. lower compared to three weeks earlier. That’s according to the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Friday. read more
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Microsoft discounts Windows 8 to OEMs to spark sales
2013-03-06 19:26:37| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Asian electronics supply chain publication DigiTimes published reports claiming that Microsoft has cut prices of Windows 8 and Office 2013 in an attempt to spark sales.
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