Agricultural Products

Shares of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) are lower on the session by 1.01%, trading at $68.84. Overall put volume is now running at 2.82x the daily average, with 41% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 2,386 contracts have traded on the session so far. Bunge Limited is a global...

Goldman Sachs upgraded XILINX Inc (NASDAQ: XLNX) from “sell” to “neutral.” XILINX's shares closed at $33.76 yesterday. XILINX's trailing-twelve-month operating margin is 34.01%. Analysts at Deutsche Bank upgraded Corn Products International Inc (NYSE: CPO) from “hold” to “buy.” CPO's shares closed...

Goldman Sachs is increasingly concerned that a “late harvest coupled with an already tight inventory situation could lead to a true scarcity dynamic in August and September as old crop corn runs out and the new crop is slow to mature.” “Darling International Inc. (NYSE: DAR) is best positioned to...

Deutsche Bank is upgrading shares of Corn Products International (NYSE: CPO) to Buy and it has a $62 price target on shares. In a note to investors, Deutsche Bank writes, "CPO has transitioned from a company largely associated with HFCS to a more diversified, ingredients-based model. This enables...

Deutsche Bank has upgraded Corn Products (NYSE: CPO) from Hold to Buy and maintains its $62 price target.

Alico, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALCO) announced today that the Company has adopted a Long-Term Incentive Program for key executives designed to align management interests and incentives with the long-term interest of the Company's shareholders. Participants in the Long-Term Incentive Program will be eligible...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that he likes Petroleo Brasileiro's (NYSE: PBR) “oil fields but not the stock." For Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW), he said, "I think there are worries on both sides. I think it's a soft patch for tech, but I still like it."...

Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved an 8.7% increase in the company's regular quarterly cash dividend, from $0.23 to $0.25 per common share. The new dividend is payable on September 2, 2011, to shareholders of record on August 16, 2011. The company...

Cusick's Corner The elements that we discussed all last week came together on the open - the EU has a continuing debt crisis and China's slowdown is creating momentum to the downside. Two sectors that appear to be under the most pressure right now are Crude and Euro Currency which is putting even...

Goldman Sachs is out with its report today on Darling International (NYSE: DAR), updating its EPS estimates. In a note to clients, Goldman Sachs writes, "We have update 2Q11-4Q11 EPS estimates to $0.40/$0.31/$0.27 from $0.30/$0.31/$0.37 but maintain our FY11-FY13 EPS estimates of $1.40/$1.21/$1.25...

Below are the top cleaning products stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Church & Dwight Company Inc (NYSE: CHD) is 17.22%. CHD's ROE for the same period is 15.12%. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Darling...

Morgan Stanley provided color on Bunge (NYSE: BG). In a research report published today, Morgan Stanley stressed its optimism about Bunge's long-term outlook, in spite of high crop prices and volatility obstacles. In the report, Morgan Stanley states, "We believe that supply dislocations, high...

15) Angela F. Braly- President and chief executive officer for WellPoint Inc. (WLP) 14) Ilene Gordon- Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Corn Products International Inc. (CPO) 13) Ho Ching- Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings Angela F. Braly ◄ Back...

Shares of Darling International Inc. (NYSE: DAR) are higher on the session by 2.97%, trading at $17.74. Overall call volume is now running at 10.39x the daily average, with 6% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 3,261 contracts have traded on the session so far. Darling...

Darling International (NYSE: DAR) is up over 11% in after hours trading today. The jump in stock price comes after DAR reported an EPS of $0.43, beating a $0.29 estimate. Revenues for the company were $439.9 million, beating a $367.61 million expectation.