CEO Patricia Woertz

The 2012 Fortune 500 list includes a record 18 firms led by female CEOs, with 10 featuring in the top 250. Meg Whitman is the head of information technology company, Hewlett-Packard, which came 10th on this year's overall list. Virginia Rometty is president and CEO of IBM. She is the first women to lead the technology giant, America's 19th largest company, according to Fortune. CEO of food processing corporation Archer Daniels Midland, Patrica Woertz has presided over a 30% increase in...Read Full Story

Women have slowly but surely made their way into the corporate world over the last few decades. Still, only 18 women are running Fortune 500 companies. These female CEOs have broken the gender barriers in business, but not without many years of hard work, rejections, and slow promotions. Here are the 10 most successful female CEOs of all-time: Patricia Woertz Patricia Woertz is the CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, a Fortune 500 food production company that operates hundreds of plants used to...Read Full Story

Stocks are modestly higher this afternoon, recovering from heavy losses suffered earlier in the week on news of a decline in weekly jobless claims…(Read More) SchaeffersResearch.com Trading Floor Blog Highs & Lows: Archer Daniels Midland, News Corp., and Windstream is a post from: The Forex Trading System BlogRead Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc chief Indra Nooyi is the most powerful woman in U.S. business for the fifth year in a row, but Yahoo Inc boss Carol Bartz is the highest paid, Fortune magazine said on Wednesday.Bartz earned more than $47 million in 2009 and was ranked No. 10 on the 2010 most powerful women list, while Nooyi was the 10th highest paid with a salary of more than $14 million last year, Fortune said."Nooyi completed the purchase of PepsiCo's two largest bottlers, bringing revenues...Read Full Story

(Reuters) - U.S. agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co <ADM.N> said on Tuesday quarterly net earnings rose from a year before, but profits were squeezed by high corn costs and tight oilseed processing margins.For the fiscal first quarter ended September 30, Archer Daniels reported a net profit of $460 million, or 68 cents per share, up from $345 million, or 54 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago.Adjusted to exclude one-time items, earnings per share were 58 cents.Decatur...Read Full Story

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co <ADM.N> posted higher third-quarter earnings on Tuesday amid improved oilseed processing and ethanol margins and rising demand for grains.For the fiscal third quarter ended March 31, ADM reported net earnings of $421 million, or 65 cents a share, compared with $3 million, or nil per share, a year earlier.Excluding costs for buying back debt, ADM posted earnings of 72 cents per share, matching the average analyst estimate...Read Full Story

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSE:Archer Daniels Midland Co., down $1.50 to $26.22Global demand lifted the grain processor's quarterly profit to $421 million from just $3 million in the same period last year. A morning rally gave way to declines following a broader market plunge.Pfizer Inc., up 35 cents to $17.26The world's biggest drugmaker posted a huge jump in first-quarter revenue thanks to its acquisition...Read Full Story

US food giant Archer Daniels Midland will invest up to 200 million US dollars in Agricultural Bank of China's upcoming share sale, possibly the world's largest initial public offering.The purchase would put the US company among several other key investors in the massive IPO next month, including the sovereign investment funds of Qatar and Kuwait, British bank Standard Chartered and two Hong Kong tycoons.The Qatar Investment Authority is set to be the single biggest investor with plans to buy...Read Full Story

BPA, a toxic compound found in everything from store receipts to water bottles, has been a hot topic as of late. That's because most industries have been slow to adopt alternatives to the petroleum-based estrogenic compound, which is used in the plastic manufacturing process, among other things. Enter isosorbide, a corn-based industrial ingredient that the Archer Daniels Midland Company is touting as a safe, renewable alternative to BPA.Archer Daniels explains: Isosorbide is a versatile...Read Full Story

AG PRODUCTS GIANT ADM: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities and products in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Oilseeds Processing, Corn Processing, and Agricultural Services. Archer Daniels Midland Company was founded in 1898 and is based in Decatur, Illinois.  FUNDAMENTAL TIDBITS:  Price/Sales Ratio:  0.31 (Great Value Stock) Trailing P/E: 11  (Both Numbers well below sector...Read Full Story