On Monday, Shares of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM), gained 2.48% to $36.72.
In 2015, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) contributed nearly $360,000 to provide food to those in need, counting $318,000 in donations to food banks in 14 different states and more than $40,000 in matching contributions to food banks from ADM colleagues.
“It’s important to reach out to those in need during the holiday season, and we provide grants to numerous organizations that provide special food assistance programs this time of year. Our colleagues also get involved in many different ways, such as volunteering for and donating to food drives and food packing events and serving meals at missions and soup kitchens,” said Jennifer Ballinger, director, ADM Cares. “But it’s also important to remember that these organizations need support throughout the year, and as one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, ADM is committed to providing assist year-round to those that need assistance most in the communities where we live and work.”
The contributions were given through ADM Cares. ADM Cares is a social investment program that directs funds to initiatives and organizations that drive meaningful social, economic and environmental progress worldwide. The program comprises three distinct focus areas: supporting the responsible development of agriculture, improving the quality of life in ADM communities and fostering employee giving and volunteer activities.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities and products. The company’s Oilseeds Processing segment originates, merchandises, crushes, and processes soybeans and soft seeds into vegetable oils and protein meals.
Shares of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF), inclined 5.56% to $2.28, during its last trading session.
Cliffs Natural Resources, declared that it is temporarily idling iron ore pellet production at its Northshore Mining operation in Minnesota by Dec. 1, 2015. The Company stated that until its domestic customers’ blast furnace capacity utilization rates improve, existing customer demand will be satisfied from its current pellet inventory.
Lourenco Goncalves, Cliffs’ Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “The historic high tonnage of foreign steel dumped into the U.S. continues to negatively impact the steel production levels of our domestic customers. As our pellet inventory at both Northshore and United Taconite is adequate to meet current customer demand, we will be able to optimize our working capital and cash flow by temporarily idling production at Northshore.” Mr. Goncalves added, “Our pellet inventory is presently at a seasonally, historic high level. As a result, we are taking this action to work off our pellet inventory pending receipt of our customers’ tonnage requirements for 2016 which have not been finalized. The resolution of the trade cases presently filed by the domestic steelmakers against several countries and covering a broad range of steel products should bring a positive impact to the domestic market sometime during the first half of 2016. As soon as the unfairly traded steel problem subsides and domestic steel production recovers to normal levels, we will be able to right away ramp up iron ore pellet production by bringing idled capacity back to operation.”
Cliffs anticipates that both North shore and United Taconite operations will be temporarily idled through the first quarter of 2016. During that time frame, Cliffs will continue to operate Hibbing Taconite in Minnesota, in addition to the Tilden and Empire mines in Michigan, at normal rates. The Company will assess and adjust its production plans as market conditions improve.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., a mining and natural resources company, produces iron ore and metallurgical coal. It operates five iron ore mines that produces iron ore pellets in Michigan and Minnesota; Koolyanobbing complex situated in northeast of the town of Southern Cross, which produces lump and fines iron ore; and two metallurgical coal mines located in Alabama and West Virginia.
Finally, Shares of Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU), ended its last trade with -0.75% loss, and closed at $3.98.
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Alcatel-Lucent provides Internet protocol (IP) and cloud networking, and ultra- broadband access worldwide. The company’s Core Networking segment offers IP routing, carrier Ethernet, network functions virtualization, and software defined networking applications and infrastructure to meet the challenges of network traffic growth while supporting the delivery of cloud-enabled business, mobile, and residential services for service providers, mobile network operators, cable/multiple system operators, transportation, utilities, and large-scale enterprises.