North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity.
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Here’s Why CF Industries Stock Gained 10.7% in January
In addition, long-beaten-down investors are finally seeing the light for a recovery in agricultural nutrient prices. The stock had a ho-hum start to 2017 until analysts at B of A Merrill Lynch changed their rating from hold to buy on January 20, citing likely improvements in earnings starting this year.
Weed 101: Colorado agriculture office shares pot know-how
In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, agriculture regulators from seven different states and Guam tour a Denver marijuana growing warehouse on a tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. The department is opening up its marijuana … knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law.
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However, the company’s outsourcing services have come under fire since the election of President Donald Trump. The outsourcing industry has also been facing headwinds from disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence.
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However, the company’s outsourcing services have come under fire since the election of President Donald Trump. The outsourcing industry has also been facing headwinds from disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence.
Alphabet, Inc. Is Making an Important Change to Non-GAAP Reporting
But there’s one other item in the company’s most recent quarterly report investors may want to take the time to consider: A key change in the way Alphabet will be calculating its non-GAAP results. In a surprising move, Alphabet explained in its fourth-quarter earnings call that it will no longer exclude stock-based compensation from its non-GAAP results.
Diversity in tech: lots of attention, little progress
The tech industry brought us self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and 3-D printers. But when it comes to racial and gender diversity, its leading companies are no trailblazers.
FX Guru John Taylor Is Back, Minus the $12 Million-a-Year Salary
For John R. Taylor , the world is defined by cycles. There are ups-building and running a currency hedge fund that became the world’s biggest, for instance.
California clears hurdle for cancer warning label on Roundup
California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday. Monsanto had sued the nation’s leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an international health organization based in France.
California clears hurdle for cancer warning label on Roundup
California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday. Monsanto had sued the nation’s leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an international health organization based in France.
2 Stocks I’ll Hold Forever
Picking out stocks to hold on to forever is an incredibly challenging task. In doing so, you’re essentially saying that this company, as it stands, won’t be disrupted in one way or another for as long as you live and beyond.
Amazon.com, Inc. Earnings: Will Big Investments Weigh on Profitability?
On the heels of a nice 37% gain in the company’s stock price in the past twelve months, the pressure is on for Amazon.com to deliver strongly when the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant reports fourth-quarter results on Thursday, Feb. 2. Ahead of the quarterly update, here’s a brief overview of what to watch when Amazon posts its earnings release. For Amazon’s fourth quarter, management expects the company to post strong revenue growth.
May Industrial Strategy Seeks to Pick Winning Areas for U.K.
The U.K. government will pick winning areas in the economy to champion as part of an industrial strategy aimed at boosting Britain’s productivity as the country prepares to leave the European Union. Announcing the long-promised plan on Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May said she wanted to see “sector deals” to identify and address barriers to expansion in different industries.
IBM Finally Turns the Corner
The tech giant reported its fourth-quarter results on Jan. 19, beating analyst estimates on all fronts and surpassing its goal of producing at least $13.50 in adjusted per-share earnings for 2016. IBM expects to produce at least $13.80 in adjusted EPS in 2017, a small but important increase.
How Facebook Leverages Artificial Intelligence
That small interaction provides a glimpse into the world of an emerging and powerful aspect of artificial intelligence in action — image recognition. With its treasure trove of words and pictures from 1.79 billion monthly active users,it is using that data, combined with recent advancements in AI, to propel this and other technological advances.
Trump Aides Said to Prepare List of Early Energy Changes
Donald Trump’s advisers have prepared a short list of energy and environmental policy changes he can take now that he has been sworn in as president, including steps to limit the role that climate change plays in government decisions and speed the review of cross-border pipelines. The list of actions Trump can take imminently includes nullifying President guidelines that federal agencies weigh climate change when approving pipelines, deciding what areas to open for drilling or taking other major actions, two people familiar with Trump’s transition planning say.
Art credit: Dave Malan
President Trump may not be a full-spectrum deregulator in the Ronald Reagan tradition. He hasn’t had much to say about the Food and Drug Administration or Federal Communications Commission-two favorite targets of regulatory reformers-and he sometimes sounds like an antitrust activist.
Art credit: Dave Malan
President Trump may not be a full-spectrum deregulator in the Ronald Reagan tradition. He hasn’t had much to say about the Food and Drug Administration or Federal Communications Commission-two favorite targets of regulatory reformers-and he sometimes sounds like an antitrust activist.
IBM Margins Narrow While It Struggles to End Sales Slide
IBM fourth-quarter sales declined and margins narrowed, indicating that revenue in cloud computing and artificial intelligence hasn’t yet offset acquisition costs and other expenses to move the company into new businesses. Revenue was $21.8 billion, slipping for the 19th consecutive quarter.
IBM Margins Narrow While Sales Struggle to Return to Growth
IBM fourth-quarter sales declined and margins narrowed, indicating that its newer businesses still need to grow more to offset development costs. Revenue slipped for the 19th consecutive quarter to $21.8 billion and operating margins shrank year-over-year for the fifth quarter in a row to 51 percent, a concerning metric of the company’s overall health.
Tractor Supply Looks Ready to Sprout
Shares of Tractor Supply bought the farm in September after the company reported disappointing results. The stock hit a 52-week low in late October and has been bouncing back ever since.
Spray this invisible, edible coating on produce and it will…
From the time a farmer harvests strawberries or green beans, they will last – at best – three weeks before they start to rot. It takes a week or two to reach the grocery store and then your fridge, giving you only a few days to eat them.
Spray this invisible, edible coating on produce and it will…
From the time a farmer harvests strawberries or green beans, they will last – at best – three weeks before they start to rot. It takes a week or two to reach the grocery store and then your fridge, giving you only a few days to eat them.
Amazing insight into what US intelligence knew about Hitler in…
One of history’s most brutal tyrants was a diagnosed schizophrenic on a mission to avenge his childhood years of repressed rage, according to Henry Murray, an American psychologist and a Harvard professor. In 1943, the US Office of Strategic Services , a precursor to the CIA, commissioned Murray to study Adolf Hitler’s personality to try to predict his behavior.
Facebook will test ‘fake news’ filtering in Germany
Facebook users will soon be able to flag news stories as fake and the social network may subsequently label the stories as “disputed” in a test of fake news filtering tools starting soon in Germany. The test will send user-flagged stories to Correctiv, a third-party fact checker.
What’s Hot and What’s Not From CES 2017
The huge annual tech show in Las Vegas known as CES is now history . . . and it’s time to start breaking down the winners and losers.
Facebook is working on a way to read brain waves that could…
Facebook is working on a way to read brain waves that could let your send your thoughts to people Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of gadgets that let humans read each other’s thoughts and communicate with brain waves may be moving closer to reality. A secretive new research division that Facebook created last year is developing “brain-computer interface” technology that sounds a lot like the telepathy of science fiction movies.
Jack Ma Bets $2.6 Billion He Can Revamp China Retail Sector
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. pioneered shopping on the internet in China. Now it thinks it can teach old-school retailers a thing or two about real-world commerce.
Barracuda Networks Shares Rally After Earnings Beat
Barracuda Networks Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Monday after the cloud-computing company topped Wall Street estimates for the fiscal third quarter. Barracuda shares surged 7.2% to $25.47 after hours.
AMZN, FB, TJX: Jim Cramer’s Views
Cramer shares his views on the agriculture cycle and takes a look at the disaster that is retail right now. Jim Cramer shares his views every day on RealMoney .
At LinkedIn, artificial intelligence is like a oxygena
Artificial intelligence might conjure up futuristic images from science fiction, but in social media, it’s already being used to recommend the right jobs, tag photos or display news you’re more likely to care about. “Data is our biggest asset.
NOAA plans to open federal waters in Pacific to fish farming
This Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, shows a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii’s Big Island near Kona.
Why Rural America Is Upset With Trump
Bloomberg’s Alan Bjerga discusses Donald Trump’s search for a secretary of agriculture and the president-elect’s farm policy. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Your Evening Briefing
At all times in life, one might as well metaphorically heed the instructions of flight attendants and keep seatbelts fastened. This will prove useful, as it did today, when the dollar goes into a tailspin ; or when bracing for higher prices on goods, gas and airfare; or when your company is the subject of a Donald Trump tweet.
President Obama’s $2.7 Trillion Lease Ban Has Big Oil Fuming
While outer space is humanity’s final frontier, the Arctic is the final frontier for oil and gas drilling. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, 22% of the Earth’s undiscovered oil and gas resources lie underneath the Arctic’s layers of ice.
The dirty secret about your clothes
A woman hangs dyed yarn to dry at a textile mill on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura. In the Colours of Nature dye house, Vijayakumar Varathan is busy prepping a vat of indigo.
2017 Will Be a Year of Individual Stocks
As the world awaits the next big product cycle in self-driving cars or artificial intelligence, it will have to be happy with the success of individual companies. The U.S. is back in an “in between” period where individual tech companies have “great stories,” rather than the whole sector, Elevation Partners cofounder Roger McNamee said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” on Friday morning.
Self-driving cars are already deciding who to kill
Autonomous vehicles are already making profound choices about whose lives matter, according to experts, so we might want to pay attention. “Every time the car makes a complex maneuver, it is implicitly making trade-off in terms of risks to different parties,” Iyad Rahwan, an MIT cognitive scientist, wrote in an email.
Race to save rare breed of pig hinges on eating them
In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, photo Susan Frank prepares to feed her mulefoot pigs at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The rare breed enjoys open pasture and woodland at the small farm in rural Maine.
Icahn Sees Doubts About Ethanol Mandate Among Trump’s Advisers
Billionaire Carl Icahn, a special adviser to Donald Trump and a skeptic of the U.S. ethanol mandate, said there are others on the president-elect’s team who have even deeper criticisms of the program. Icahn repeated criticism of the credit trading program that regulators and refiners use to track compliance with federal biofuel consumption quotas.