The summit comes as supermarkets in Britain were urged by the Food Standards Agency to test pork, chicken and other meats for cross-contamination.How times have changed.
Meanwhile, Tesco has admitted that it had been selling frozen spaghetti bolognese ready meals which were between 60% and 100% horse meat.
Tomorrow's meeting has been called by Ireland, which holds the EU presidency, and where the scandal began after horse meat was discovered in frozen beef burgers.
The country's agriculture minister Simon Coveney said the summit was being held to discuss "whatever steps may be necessary at EU level to comprehensively address this matter".
Measures on the agenda will reportedly include labelling processed meat for its origin. Meanwhile processed meat manufacturers in Ireland have been asked to carry out DNA testing in a bid to reassure consumers and export markets.
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I have an open ended question that maybe you or someone can comment on.
I just read John Mauldin's piece at Ritholtzs' site, one that reproduced Jeremy Grantham's recent article implying that often stock market returns and corporate earnings growth are negatively correlated to GDP growth.
I don't understand what the conditions are that could make this happen. I do know he thinks much of the world indices are overpriced with only a few areas only slightly overpriced.
The closest analogous condition I can reference is that old piece you wrote about the Baltic Dry Index often having a similar relationship with shipping stock prices.
As an aside, and generalization perhaps, but it seems to me there are a lot of very good macro managers up in Boston rather than New York.
Maybe that is a stretch but in the same vein, I once read a link at SSRI that showed that liberal and aggressive managers tended to stay, or flock to those cities in New England, (Peter Lynch, John Henry, Seth Klarman, Miller & Heebner of fund fame) while more conservative managers tended to live and work out of the MidWest or South.
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