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Smithfield Foods Inc.
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Smithfield Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the processing of pork and production of hog in the United States and internationally. It offers fresh pork to retail customers as unprocessed, trimmed cuts, such as butts, loins, picnics, and ribs; and packaged meat products, including smoked and boiled hams, bacon, sausage, hot dogs, deli and luncheon meats, pepperoni, and dry meat products, as well as ready-to-eat, prepared foods, such as pre-cooked entrees, and pre-cooked bacon and sausage. The company also engages in the production of hogs; and turkey production and hat...
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Filed under: Dell (DELL), General Electric (GE), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Smithfield Foods (SFD), Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Oil  Today was a strange post-holiday session as US markets really just keyed off of a weak dollar and higher commodity prices. $70+ on oil and $1,000+ gold were a highlight, but all in all this was merely the U.S. playing catch-up on gains after we had an extra day off.
Here were today's unofficial closing bell figures:
Dow 9,497.34 +56.07 (0.59%)
S&P 500 1,025.37 +8.97 (0.88%)
Nasdaq 2,037.77 +18.99 (0.94%)
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Smithfield Foods suffers widened quarterly loss
Filed under: Earnings reports, Smithfield Foods (SFD), Options  Pork producer Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) confessed Tuesday morning to a first-quarter loss of $107.7 million, or 75 cents per share, notably worse than its year-ago loss of just $13.2 million, or 10 cents per share. Excluding one-time charges, SFD would have swallowed a loss of 56 cents per share for the recently concluded quarter. Revenue for the period fell by more than 13% to $2.72 billion.
<>Both figures fell short of analysts' expectations, which called for a loss of 53 cents per share on $2.82 billion in revenue. Thanks to t...
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