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Heir to Gucci Empire to Double Fashion Bet

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. When he bought Italian fashion house Gucci NV a decade ago, French billionaire François Pinault steered his family's lumber and distribution business...

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Ghana: The 2010 Budget: What are the prospects for the smallholder farmer

The importance of the agriculture sector to the Ghanaian economy was manifest once again in the 2010 national budget statement presented by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, to Parliament on...

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Uganda: Rain Boosts Tea Production

Tea growers are upbeat about the coming of the rains saying; it has boosted the production of the country's fourth export earner. The Acting Secretary General, Uganda Tea Association (UTA), the umbrella organisation of all tea...

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Agriculture futures mostly fall, livestock mixed

Agriculture futures were lower early Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery slid 7.5 cents to $5.71 a bushel; March corn dropped 7 cents to $4.9625 a bushel; January soybeans dipped 1 cent to $10.41 a...

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Corn harvest progresses; soybeans all but finished

By DAN PILLER • dpiller@dmreg.com • November 24, 2009 The Iowa corn harvest progressed in the last week, expanding the acres harvested from 59 percent last week to 78 percent Monday in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's...

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Weekly Outlook: Pork Industry on Last Leg Down

Bankruptcy is a terrible word, but one that indicates the pork industry is entering the “last leg down” in this cycle, writes Chris Hurt, extension economist at Purdue University. Lenders to hog operations are increasingly...

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Farm cash receipts down after outstanding year

Leader-Post and Financial Post staffNovember 23, 2009 REGINA — Farm cash receipts in Saskatchewan fell 4.2 per cent to in the first nine months of 2009, largely due to a precipitous 20-per-cent plunge in the third quarter,...

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Egyptian Economy Growth

Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends] Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in t1mmi's InsaneJournal: failed in his attempt to break the strong link between exogenous developments and the patterns of...

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Bulging stocks will limit Indian wheat imports

International wheat prices have slid 9% this year as the world grapples with a second straight year of oversupply, but recent imports by countries such as India have caught investor attention as money flows into commodity markets

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DJ CBOT Soy Review: Fades From 3-Month High As Harvest Nears End (ENG)

CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Soybean futures fell from a three-month high Monday as the completion of the U.S. harvest increases supplies and spurs selling by farmers. November soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade fell 4 cents to...

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