[tgs]

Investors drove down the price of Monsanto shares by 4 percent on Friday as South Korea joined Japan in suspending imports of U.S. wheat after an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat was discovered in a field in eastern Oregon.

The strain of wheat, designed to resist harmful effects from Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, was never commercially developed by the St. Louis-based agriculture giant in large part because wheat growers did not want to risk retaliation from their biggest export markets.

[softy54534]

You really can't claim that a 4% drop in share value has anything to do with these protests. That's normal market fluctuations.

[tgs]

There are multiple stories on this, and multiple financial recommendations that you "tread carefully" as one article put it. This, is actually likely due to South Korea's suspension.

[softy54534]

A 4 % drop is not normal.