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A federal judge in Kansas City, Kansas, ordered Dow Chemical Co on Wednesday to pay $1.2 billion in a price-fixing case involving chemicals used to make foam products in cars.
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EL RENO, Okla., April 29- Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of big government runs deep. Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, is an exception.
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EL RENO, Okla., April 29- Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of big government runs deep. Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, is an exception.
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*Wheat sharply higher ahead of annual Kansas crop tour. *Coming up: USDA planting progress at 3 p.m. CDT ( 2000 GMT. Wheat futures were also sharply higher, following gains in corn and underpinned by concerns that crop scouts on a tour this week will find freeze-damaged wheat fields in the top growing state of Kansas.
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WASHINGTON, April 26- Meatpackers could hire employees through an agricultural guest worker program for the first time under a visa program proposed by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee chairman on Friday. Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who oversees the legal code, said he would examine the immigration system issue by issue "to ensure we get immigration reform right."
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*KCBT wheat up most in 5 months. Kansas City Board of Trade hard red winter wheat for May delivery leaped 3.3 percent, or 24-3/ 4 cents per bushel ending the session at $7.63- 3/ 4 per bushel, posting the biggest one day advance for a spot KCBT wheat futures contract in five months.
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"It's a really good start," said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska. " The report said climatologists calculated that 69.80 percent of the High Plains, which include Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and the Dakotas, was in severe or worse drought, down from 73.47 percent the prior week.
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April 25- Details of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing index, released on Thursday. Following are details from the survey:. The survey included 102 responses from manufacturing plants in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, northern New Mexico and western Missouri.
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April 25- Details of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's monthly manufacturing index, released on Thursday. Following are details from the survey:. The survey included 102 responses from manufacturing plants in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, northern New Mexico and western Missouri.
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*Bunge quarterly earnings top estimates. April 25- Congestion at Brazilian ports and limited selling of crops by U.S. farmers are keeping global grain supplies tight despite expectations for massive harvests later this year, agribusiness company Bunge Ltd said on Thursday.
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*Corn turns firm on technicals; slow farmer selling. CHICAGO, April 24- Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell over one percent on Wednesday on long-liquidation in anticipation of heavy movement soon of soybean supplies from South America's bumper harvest.
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*Wheat market shrugging off Wednesday freeze in US Plains. CHICAGO, April 24- Chicago Board of Trade corn staged a cautious rebound on Wednesday in a technical bounce from its slide to a two-week low and on hesitant sales of corn by farmers, traders said.
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WASHINGTON, April 23- The White House said on Tuesday it would be open to legislation to put air traffic controllers back to work full-time as key U.S. senators demanded more information about the impact of furloughs on safety and air operations.
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WASHINGTON, April 23- The White House said on Tuesday it would be open to legislation to put air traffic controllers back to work full time as key U.S. senators demanded more information about the impact of furloughs on safety and air operations.
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*Louisiana, Nebraska stall; Kansas pushes ahead. April 23- From Louisiana to Ohio, Massachusetts and Nebraska, bold proposals to upend state tax laws are losing momentum in the face of political squabbles and special interest opposition. One case in point: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.
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Rivers including the Mississippi and Illinois are expected to remain in "major flood stage" through this weekend, as more rain and snow fell on much of the Midwest. NBC News reports.
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"We are now faced with substantial possible disruptions to the air transportation system," Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, and Senator John Thune, the top Republican on the panel, said in a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta.
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NEW YORK, April 22- Families saving for college poured billions of dollars into U.S. 529 education savings plans over the past five years, even as these plans' performance lagged behind other investments like mutual funds, investment research company Morningstar Inc said on Monday.
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CHICAGO, April 22- Wet and cold weather in the U.S. "It will continue cold and wet, with 0.3 inch up to an inch of rain beginning late Monday and continuing into Wednesday in the Plains and in the Midwest with nearly 100 percent coverage," said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring.
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WASHINGTON, April 19- The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that U.S.-based Sierra Nevada Corp and Brazil's Embraer would continue work on a $428 million contract to build new attack aircraft for Afghanistan after a federal court rejected a challenge by rival Beechcraft.
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WASHINGTON, April 19- The U.S. Air Force on Friday said U.S.-based Sierra Nevada Corp and Brazil's Embraer would continue work on a $428 million contract to build new attack planes for Afghanistan after a federal court rejected a challenge by rival Beechcraft.