Isis Almeida

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A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange works while a TV shows footage of Kamala Harris in the background.

‘I will donate the maximum’: Wall Street donors rush to fill Kamala Harris’ campaign coffers

By Amanda Gordon, Isis Almeida, and others

Remote worker

‘Office is toxic’: Cranes disappear nationwide as commercial real estate crunch hits downtowns

By Isis Almeida, Miranda Davis, and others

Poultry sits in bins at the Pleasant Valley Poultry processing facility in Baltic, Ohio, U.S., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. A consortium of 13 poultry-related organizations sent a letter to two leaders of a US Senate group representing chicken producers, requesting direct financial assistance to offset hardships related to the coronavirus (COVID-19), Meat + Poultry Magazine reported. Photographer: Dane Rhys/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Chicken prices to finally fall thanks to boom in renewable fuel: ‘A tailwind for the protein industry’

By Gerson Freitas Jr., Tarso Veloso, and others

Brandon Johnson

Chicago is testing its trillion-dollar derivatives cash cow with an eye-watering $800 million tax bill: ‘We don’t want to leave’

By Isis Almeida and Bloomberg

NASCAR Chicago Auto Racing

Chicago’s $100 million-plus Nascar payday gets rained out as record downpour cuts short street race

By Isis Almeida and Bloomberg

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: (L-R) Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )

Mark Zuckerberg’s charity is giving $250 million to Chicago’s up and coming biotech sector after it beat out 36 other cities: ‘We competed and won’

By Isis Almeida and Bloomberg

07 January 2022, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lubmin: View of pipe systems and shut-off devices at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Originally, the pipeline for natural gas from Russia was to go into operation at the end of 2019. Photo: Stefan Sauer/dpa (Photo by Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Europe is suffering its worst energy crisis since the 1970s. Here’s 6 ways war in Ukraine could make it worse

By Vanessa Dezem, Anna Shiryaevskaya, and others

Farmer Dave Burrier plants corn in the Marvin Chapel field in Mount Airy, Maryland on May 19, 2020. – Dave Burrier steered his tractor through a field, following a GPS map as he tried to plant as much corn as possible amid the yellow and green rye covering the ground. Striving to get a massive yield out of his crops in rural Maryland is how Burrier hopes to make it through yet another uncertain year, beset by market disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed trade tensions between the United States and China. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

China is already scooping up U.S. corn from the next harvest

By Isis Almeida, Michael Hirtzer, and others

Coffee beans seen in the window of<br />
Insomnia Coffee Company in Dublin’s city centre during level 5 COVID-19 lockdown.<br />
On Saturday, March 27, 2021, in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)

The quality of your coffee may soon be determined by a robot

By Marvin G. Perez, Isis Almeida, and others

Meat Prices To Rise As Corn Supply Diverted For Ethanol Production

U.S. ranchers are using duct-tape to keep cows’ ears from freezing off

By Michael Hirtzer, Isis Almeida, and others

German officials confirmed the first case of the deadly African swine fever to reach the country. Last month, Till Backhaus (SPD), an agriculture minister, helped build a swine-proof fence on German-Polish border to keep possible infected animals out of the country.

Europe is on high alert after a deadly swine virus emerges in Germany

By Megan Durisin, Brian Parkin, and others

Deaths from COVID-19 have been reported for employees at meat facilities owned by JBS SA and Tyson Foods. Laborers have, in some cases, staged walk-outs to protest working conditions.

World’s biggest pork producer says U.S. meat supplies are ‘close to the edge’ as it shutters key plant

By Isis Almeida, Matt Day, and others