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General Mills is a global packaged food company that produces snacks, cereal, convenient meals, yogurt, dough, baking mixes and ingredients, pet food, and superpremium ice cream. Its largest brands are Nature Valley, Cheerios, Old El Paso, Yoplait, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Blue Buffalo, and Haagen-Dazs. In fiscal 2024, 81% of its revenue was derived from the United States, although the company also operates in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Although most of General Mills' products are sold through retail stores to consumers, the company also sells products to the foodservice channel and the commercial baking industry.

Hormel Foods Corp., based in Austin, Minnesota, produces and markets meat and food products to retail, foodservice, deli, and commercial customers in the U.S. and internationally. The company is 48%-owned by the Hormel Foundation. The Foundation's priorities are to preserve the independence of the company; support the Austin, Minnesota, community; and provide for the financial welfare of the family's heirs. The company has approximately 20,000 employees. The shares are a component of the S&P 500.

At midday, the major indices are still flat ahead of the big rate call coming today at 2 pm. Backseat quarterbacks have been placing odds on a 25-basis-point cut or a 50-basis-point cut. It feels like Super Bowl Sunday. We are sticking with our forecast of 25. We believe that a larger cut might imply unclear signals on the state of the economy. Our rate watcher Kevin Heal observes, 'The Fed was measured on its way up, raising rates. We expect it to be just as measured on the way down, lowering rates.'

The Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers is a daily report that identifies the five companies the largest insider purchase transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions as well as the five companies the largest insider sales transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions.