Smithfield Foods (SFD) Bucks Market Downgrade On Takeover Rumors

June 29, 2010 9:46 AM EDT
Smithfield Foods Inc. (NYSE: SFD) is picking up interest on earlier takeover reports. Shares are now up 8 percent.

Brazil newspaper Valor Economico that JBS SA may be in talks to acquire meat-producer Smithfield.

The two are now strangers, as JBS already bought Smithfield's Beef Group in 2008.

JBS declined to comment on the rumors, the paper reported.

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