- Yasheng Yang is replacing Veronica Chen, who is stepping down to pursue other opportunities.
- Announced today that it has filed a letter of complaint with the U.S. SEC regarding the naked short selling of the company's stock.

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• SEED 12/31/2008 09:00am
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Consumer staples sector headlines

• TSN Today 03:32pm
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• CPWM Today 02:31pm
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• CVS Today 12:39pm
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• DMND Today 09:08am
  Diamond Foods, Inc. Long Bow Research Raised DMND to Buy from Neutral, price target: $27
  
• CVS Today 08:49am
  CVS Corp CFO: Guides FY09 Rev growth of 10.5-12.5% - conf call- Guides Q1 Rev +8-10% - Puts 2009 CAPEX at $1-1.2B with free cash flow of approx $3.5B