Packaged Foods & Meats

Cusick's Corner The market finished in the green today, but not enough to salvage the week which finished down. While this was an orderly pullback, the market appeared overbought so this was somewhat expected. Traders had mixed earnings and headline risks from the EU to contend with, while the...

Cusick's Corner The market is up, bonds are up, earnings were mixed and the data was in line -- the trend is still strong. Bonds and Equities going up at the same time is a weird dynamic, one that traders are watching closely because this breaks from their contradictory nature that they usually...

Global Hunter Securities upgraded Zhongpin (NASDAQ: HOGS) from Neutral to Accumulate in a research report published today. Global Hunter Securities also increased its Zhongpin price target from $15 to $18. In the report, Global Hunter Securities states, "The company announced this morning that it...

Zhongpin Inc. (Nasdaq: HOGS) today announced the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with China Construction Bank. Under the Agreement, China Construction Bank, Henan Branch will provide approximately RMB 10 billion in loans and financial services to assist the company in its growth. Mr...

Nine out of 10 U.S. adults aren't meeting the daily recommendations for vegetables and fruit^1 – a fact reinforced by the recently released 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.^2 But, starting this spring, Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB), the maker of V8^ juices, will help make it even easier...

Shares of The Hain Celestial Group (NASDAQ: HAIN) are higher on the session by 6.23%, trading at $32.40. Overall call volume is now running at 7.46x the daily average, with 66% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,172 contracts have traded on the session so far. The Hain Celestial...

Treehouse Foods (NYSE: THS) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check, the year-to-date performance of Treehouse Foods is a gain of 15.6%.

Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check, the year-to-date performance of Kraft Foods is a gain of 4.9%.

Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check, the year-to-date performance of Kraft Foods is a gain of 4.9%.

The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check, the year-to-date performance of The Hershey Company is a gain of 21.6%.

By 10:20 am, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 57.06 points, or 0.46%, to 12,213.93, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index had dropped 6.49 points, or 0.49%. The NASDAQ composite index fell 16.98 points, or 0.61%. Some of the narrow based indexes that are still afloat in the...

Unilever (NYSE: UN) has hit a 52-week high in today's trading. At last check, the year-to-date performance of Unilever is a gain of 4.7%.

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc. (NYSE: HQS) announced today it received a notice from the NYSE Amex LLC notifying the Company that, following resignation of its independent non-executive director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee effective April 6, 2011, the Company was not in...

The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAIN) and The New York Knickerbockers have teamed up for a new multi-year marketing partnership to promote healthy snacks to Knicks' fans at Madison Square Garden (NASDAQ: MSG).

President Barack Obama unveiled his plan today to try to cut $4 trillion from the nations deficit, by cutting entitlement spending and raising taxes on the wealthy. Good thing it wasn't a timely plan, as he was 15 minutes late. I guess being late is the new killing it. Unilever (NYSE: UL) and...