Smithfield Foods Profits Plummet

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RICHMOND, Va. -- Shares of Smithfield Foods Inc. dipped more than 3 percent Thursday after the world's largest pork processor reported its fourth-quarter profit fell sharply on a domestic meat glut.

Smithfield, owner of Circle Four Farms in Utah, is mostly in the pork, hog and beef businesses, but it got socked because dampened overseas demand for chicken bloated inventories of other meat products in the United States and depressed prices.

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Smithfield Foods Profits Plummet

"Looking into next year, it will take some time to work through the excess protein in the marketp...

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