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A Booming Airline Business: Shipping Pigs to China in 747 Jumbo Jets

(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on commercial aviation, but Alexey Isaykin’s cargo carrier has been fully loaded.Volga-Dnepr Group has flown more than 3,000 breeding pigs to China from France this year. The animals — transported 6,450 miles (10,400 kilometers) in wooden crates in the hold of a Boeing 747 cargo plane — are being used to restore local livestock levels to help mitigate shortages in the world’s largest pork market after an outbreak of African swine fever decimated China’s hog herds.Measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus amplified those swine shortages and accelerated attempts to boost the …read more […]

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Mall Owner Simon Property Nixes Deal to Buy Rival Taubman

(Bloomberg) — Simon Property Group Inc. is terminating its $3.6 billion bid to buy Taubman Centers Inc., arguing that its rival mall owner has breached the merger agreement by not taking steps to mitigate the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.Simon said in a statement on Wednesday it has “exercised its contractual rights” to terminate the deal, which was announced in February before the pandemic battered malls. The company said it was asking a court to declare that Taubman has suffered a “material adverse event” and “breached the covenants in the merger agreement.”Taubman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Taubman’s …read more […]

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Why You Can Buy Charles Schwab (SCHW) Stock and Hold Forever

Diamond Hill Capital recently released its Q1 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download below. The Diamond Hill Small Cap Fund posted a return of -36.17% for the quarter, underperforming its benchmark, the Russell 2000 Index which returned -30.61% in the same quarter. You should check out Diamond Hill Capital’s top 5 […] …read more […]

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Tesla Shares Top $1,000 for the First Time

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. shares eclipsed $1,000 for the first time ever on Wednesday as ramping demand for the company’s Model 3 in China led Wedbush analysts to tout the “massive”’ market opportunity and its ongoing battery efforts.Analyst Daniel Ives called the demand out of China “a ray of shining light for Tesla in a dark global macro” setting, with the company appearing to be on track to reach 100,000 deliveries from its local plant in the first year. Ives maintained his neutral rating but boosted his price target to $1,000 from $800 and said his new bull case implies …read more […]