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		<title><![CDATA[Pump-and-Dump at Smithfield?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brendan Wagner submits: Packaged food producer Smithfield Foods SFD is trading down 8% today, on news that the CEO unloaded 100,000 shares of stock this week after the company enticed new investors to buy shares a couple of weeks ago. A pump-and-dump indeed.   Look at the chart: by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:57:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tough Q1 for Smithfield Foods]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   SmithField Foods Inc. SFD, producer and marketer of fresh and packaged meat products in the U.S. and internationally, reported results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010 with a net loss of 56 cents per share. The loss was a penny higher than the Zacks Consensus...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smithfield Foods, Inc. F1Q10 (Qtr End 08/02/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ken Goldman - JP Morgan. Ken Goldman - JP Morgan The question is on potential equity offering. I know that you have kept it as part of your arsenal. Can you give us some color on how likely a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Pork for Pork Program?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Delaney submits:   We hear the phrase &#8220;When pigs fly&#8221; when we&#8217;ve asked a question for which a simple, polite &#8220;no&#8221; is beyond the bounds of human compassion, or when someone is euphemistically trying to describe the very low probability of something occurring.   Unfortunately, anyone using...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:36:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lone Pine Reveals Smithfield Foods Holdings]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Market Folly submits: In a 13G filing made with the SEC due to activity on June 9th, 2009, Lone Pine Capital has disclosed a 7.7% ownership stake in Smithfield Foods SFD. This is a brand new position for Stephen Mandel's hedge fund and it now owns 11,116,850 shares. Lone Pine...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:01:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Of Swine and Men: Benefiting From Dislocations in the Pork Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saj Karsan submits: For an analyst, the phrase "long term" appears to mean next quarter rather than this one. Indeed, it is difficult to find analysts who are focused on a company's long term prospects. For a most recent example, consider the analyst response to the recent swine flu outbreak....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 01:33:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smithfield Foods, Inc. F3Q09 (Qtr End 02/01/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ken Goldman - JP Morgan. Ken Goldman - JP Morgan I think, as you are aware, you have addressed it a lot, the covenants are on investors&#8217; minds. I know you don&#8217;t give particular guidance, but you&#8217;re half way...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expect Meat Consumption to Rise for Smithfield and Tyson]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Krieger submits: Smithfield's SFD comeback: The analysts are voicing more concerns about consumers' buying habits, alleging they are in a trend of cutting more protein from their diets in an effort to economize. I say just the opposite. Expect consumption to go up, as anxiety ridden consumers use food...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:31:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smithfield Foods: Bringing Home the Bacon]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Krieger submits: The largest pork producer reported second quarter earnings on Thursday, apparently  easing  investor concerns -- its shares shot through the roof, tacking on more than 20% to SFD&#8217;s  decimated  market cap. Although the company was able to increase revenues by 14% from $2.74...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smithfield Foods, Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 10/26/08) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ken Goldman - JP Morgan Ken Goldman - JP Morgan I do appreciate that you are being more aggressive than some of your competitors in terms of cutting the herd and in terms of taking the covenant risk right on...]]></description>
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