| Meat processors assure stable prices during the holidays
The local meat processing industry is assuring the public of stable prices of ham, bacon, hotdogs and other processed meat products this Christmas season.
The Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. (PAMPI) which include big corporate players like San Miguel Foods, Purefoods and RFM-Swift, said prices of hams, bacons, corned beef, and hotdogs have not moved by wide swings over the last four years and this year will not be any different.
According to PAMPI executive director Francisco Buencamino, the cheapest ham product in the market is the pear-shaped ham selling under P200 per piece of about a kilo.
“This was the same price level of a year ago, and the year before that," Buen-camino added.
PAMPI is prepared to sell its products in consumer-friendly barangay food terminals (BFTs) set up by the Department of Agriculture across Metro Manila so consumers can avail themselves of processed meat items at prices lower than those sold in regular retail outlets.
FUTURES FILE: Volatility in equity markets leads to commodity savings
As overseas equity markets were plunging on Monday due to fears about slowing worldwide economic growth, traders in the U.S. were forced to sit and watch as the nation observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day.By Tuesday morning, the anxiety about worldwide economic stability and growth had reached a boiling point. Seemingly out of nowhere, the Federal Reserve announced it was slashing the Fed Funds rate by 75 basis points to help ease concerns and to prevent a more substantial slowdown in economic growth.Initially, the decision had the opposite effect. Traders interpreted the sudden and extreme cut as a sign that things might be as bad or worse than they seemed. Only a few minutes after the open of U.S. equity trading on Tuesday, equity issues had fallen almost 4 percent.As the day continued, most of the losses were erased and markets closed down just 1 percent.
Environmentalists' report to call for Ottawa to act on oil sands
There's a few oil refineries and chemical plants in Sarnia that deserver honourable mention too.
Could this be more about self promotion? Hope they'll be walking home from the press conference and reading their news releases by candle light. Posted 15/02/08 at 5:46 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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Shipping in favour as industry proves resilient
With all the “stormy weather" metaphors floating around the markets at the moment, you might think the last thing to do with your money is send it to sea, but some investors have done precisely that and have been richly rewarded. Out of favour in the 1990s, shipping is now attracting more interest as demand soars and the financial infrastructure supporting the industry becomes more sophisticated. There is a variety of approaches available to investors, although the choice of different funds within each approach is limited. The options include investing directly in ships as assets, managing the ships and their freight, buying shipping company shares or investing in the increasingly active futures market. .
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