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Lower prices likely offsetting Mexico's tariffs on U.S. pork exports
2018-11-02 20:28:40| National Hog Farmer
U.S. fresh and frozen pork products subject to tariffs have maintained same levels.
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Samsung Q3 profit grows on memory chip demand, offsetting lower smartphone results
2018-10-31 09:11:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Samsung Electronics reported a strong increase in third-quarter results, led by sales of its memory chips and growing demand for OLED panels. This helped offset a decline in profits from smartphones, hurt by tough competition and soft demand. Samsung said it expects a slowdown in results in the fourth quarter as seasonality affects the components business.
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Even Before The Paris Agreement Takes Effect, Hundreds Of Corporates Are Voluntarily Offsetting Emissions
2016-08-09 08:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: In 2007, as airlines around the world were lobbying to prevent the regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions from passenger flights, Delta Airlines started looking for ways to reduce its emissions first by increasing fuel efficiency, and eventually by investing $1 million in a massive effort by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to buy up old farms across the Lower Mississippi Valley and restore them to their natural, forested state so that trees can absorb enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to offset some of...
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Companies Use Voluntary Carbon Markets for More Than Just Offsetting
2016-06-10 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: William Theisen says his heart sank when he opened the latest edition of Ecosystem Marketplace's annual survey of voluntary carbon markets, entitled Raising Ambition: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2016. "The first thing we go to is the price," he recalls, "And we were like, 'Oh no, $3.30!'" As Director of Business Development at carbon strategy consultancy EcoAct, low prices are bad for business, and the report identified a record low of $3.30 per metric ton of greenhouse-gas emissions...
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Heavier carcass weights offsetting lower placements
2015-09-26 05:25:00| Beef
High-priced feedlot replacements and relatively cheap feed made feeding cattle for longer periods and to heavier weights a logical strategy. Now, analysts with the Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC) say that softer fed cattle prices and increasing packer leverage, as cattle marketing becomes less current, suggests the value of additional pounds and delayed marketing is no longer worth the cost. read more
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