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Tyson Sinks With Virus Pushing Up Costs, Cutting Volumes

(Bloomberg) — Tyson Foods Inc. shares fell after the top U.S. meat supplier said unprecedented disruptions are reducing its output and pushing up costs, with the outlook so murky it couldn’t offer financial guidance for the year.U.S. plant shutdowns and slowdowns in the past month are set to continue, resulting in higher operating costs and lower volume for the rest of fiscal 2020, Tyson said in a statement on second-quarter earnings, which missed estimates. While the pandemic has meant higher retail sales volume, that hasn’t been enough to offset food-service losses. “Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 impacts to …read more […]

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‘Like watching a train wreck’: The coronavirus effect on North Dakota shale oilfields

Oil executive Bill Kent was with fellow managers in the Colorado board room of Resource Energy headquarters on April 20 when benchmark U.S. crude prices collapsed to minus $37 a barrel. Sitting six feet apart because of the coronavirus, they knew the pandemic was not only a personal matter.

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Nuclear is Getting Hammered by Green Power and the Pandemic

(Bloomberg) — Generating power without harmful carbon emissions has never been more urgent, yet one of the biggest sources of clean power is struggling to turn a profit.The nuclear industry has been vying for a role as the perfect partner to the surging, but intermittent, renewables sector for years, citing its role as a stable source of emissions-free power. Nations around the world have set tough targets to reduce greenhouse gases with the help of clean energy to meet commitments set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement.Record output from wind and solar is more frequently creating an oversupply that can …read more […]