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Poultry Producer Stocks Sink On Bird Flu Confirmations
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 1:19pm | 291Poultry producers' shares fell Tuesday after federal farming officials confirmed avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Boone County, Arkansas. Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) fell more than 4 percent to $37.92, while Sanderson Farms, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAFM) traded down about 5.5 percent...
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How Hysteria Kills The Market (NVAX)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 1:30pm | 643Asteroids. Y2K. The swine flu. Mad Cow disease. Killer wasps and killer Wi-Fi. What do these things have in common? They're all part of a graph designed by Information is Beautiful. Dubbed Mountains Out of Molehills, the graph is an interesting (and interactive) look at the world's greatest fears...
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How to Play, Profit, and Protect From India’s NDM-1 Superbug (APT)
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 3:10pm | 362NDM-1—it’s the new swine flu, except this “superbug” is resistant to most drugs, which can make the ramifications of a pandemic or endemic exponentially greater. Health experts say NDM-1 can exist inside different bacteria, like E.coli, and it makes them resistant to most antibiotics. Scientists...