Insights and Stories on International

Dreyfus shareholders agree to arbitration over stake sale

Sep. 26, 2017 at 3:02 pm CDT

Amsterdam/Paris | Reuters — Family shareholders of commodity trader Louis Dreyfus have agreed to arbitration talks to settle a long-running dispute over a share sale, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The tussle concerns an attempt by minority shareholders to sell nearly 17 per cent of the group’s […]

Syngenta agrees to settle GMO corn litigation

Sep. 26, 2017 at 2:53 pm CDT

By Nate Raymond

FMC deal for DuPont assets wins clearances

Sep. 25, 2017 at 9:25 pm CDT

By Staff

Bottles of Roundup herbicide on a shelf.

France open to phasing out glyphosate

Sep. 25, 2017 at 7:06 pm CDT

By Sybille De La Hamaide

U.S. grains: Soybeans sag as harvest gets rolling

Sep. 25, 2017 at 5:30 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down after bearish USDA report

Sep. 25, 2017 at 4:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures tumbled about two per cent on Monday after government data on Friday showed bigger-than-expected placements of cattle on feed in August. Most-active CME December live cattle dropped by the daily price limit of three cents to finish at 114.425 cents per […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Philippines’ Jollibee eyes deals to grow

Sep. 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm CDT

Manila/Singapore | Reuters — Filipino billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong, who has built Jollibee Foods Corp. into a near-4,000 store purveyor of sweet-style spaghetti, burgers and fried chicken, is looking to buy existing brands in mature markets to help fuel future growth. Dominant at home, where Jollibee has 1,000 eponymous stores […]

By Anshuman Daga Neil Jerome Morales

Brazil’s Supreme Court won’t release JBS brothers

Sep. 22, 2017 at 8:43 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes on Friday denied a request to release from jail Joesley and Wesley Batista, the brothers who control the world’s largest meatpacker JBS SA. The Batistas’ defense challenged the detention of the brothers after their arrest last week by federal […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle hit one-month high ahead of USDA data

Sep. 22, 2017 at 7:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures jumped to the highest levels in over a month on Friday, lifted by technical buying and expectations for bullish government supply data that was due after the close of trading. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Cattle on Feed report, however, was […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. cattle placements spike in August

Sep. 22, 2017 at 5:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Ranchers placed 1.93 million cattle in U.S. feedlots in August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday, in a stronger-than-expected report likely to weigh on futures early next week. Cattle placements rose about three per cent from August in 2016, USDA said. Analysts polled by […]

By Michael Hirtzer