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Market Wrap For March 11: Markets End Slightly In The Red As Ukraine Worries Persist And Continued Chinese Conerns
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 4:42pm | 2333Read More...U.S. stocks declined as investors continue to question China's growth prospects following Monday's shocking report that its exports had tumbled in February. Certainly not helping investor sentiment is the fact that Crimea's parliament voted to declare independence from Ukraine. This weekend,...
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Market Wrap For January 30: Markets Focus on Good News
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 6:06pm | 2831Read More...U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as investors and traders focused on the positives. Data showed that the economy expanded in the fourth quarter as consumer spending gained traction. "Today the market is focused on the good news, or the developed world," Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at...
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Alcoa Earnings Preview: Lower Revenue, Flat EPS Expected for Q4
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 5:12pm | 784Read More...Alcoa (NYSE: AA) is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter 2013 results Thursday, January 9, after the markets close. Its report has long been seen as kickoff of each new earnings season, though it may become less relevant now that the stock has been dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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Market Wrap For December 10: Fed Meeting One Week Away
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 5:41pm | 1996Read More...After starting the week hitting record closes yesterday, major indices slipped in today's trading session. Investors are anxiously awaiting next week's Federal Reserve meeting which it is becoming more and more apparent that tapering is set to begin sooner, rather than later. The meetings will...
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Short Interest Swings In Fertilizer Stocks (IPI, MOS, UAN)
Saturday, August 31, 2013 - 10:54am | 1010Read More...Shares of many fertilizer companies took a big hit at the end of the July with the announcement of the breakup of Belarusian Potash marketing cartel. CVR Partners (NYSE: UAN), Intrepid Potash (NYSE: IPI) and Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) saw the most significant percentage upswings in the number of their...
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Alcoa Earnings Preview: Lower Q2 Revenue, Flat EPS Expected (AA)
Friday, July 5, 2013 - 11:59am | 783Read More...Alcoa (NYSE: AA), shares of which sank to a multiyear low earlier this week, is scheduled to report its second-quarter 2013 results Monday, July 8, after the markets close. Alcoa's report marks the unofficial kick-off of the second-quarter earnings season. Though the management team has a strong...
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Freeport-McMoRan and Other Mining Picks from Deutsche Bank (CDE, FCX, VALE)
Monday, July 1, 2013 - 1:24pm | 875Read More...The U.S. dollar has strengthened, global inflation remains mild and growth in China has slowed. Despite the beating that commodities have taken recently because of all this, analysts at Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) have recommended some metals and mining stocks that investors can buy into now....
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Seven Hot Chinese Stocks
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 7:37am | 1010Read More...Vice President Xi Jinping of China meets with President Obama on Tuesday at the White House in an effort to enhance trust between the two countries. And here is a quick look at some Chinese stocks that have risen between 15% and 25% year to date. They all are traded on U.S. exchanges, and each pays...
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Is It Time To Look At Uranium Plays Again? (URA)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 10:35am | 343Read More...Uranium exchange-traded funds and shares of companies involved in the uranium sector are buoyant again after the waterfall event in March. Some analysts and forecasters say that now is the time to add uranium to your portfolio. These market experts point to the world's ever growing demand for...
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Top M&A Deals Of 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 - 10:34am | 327Read More...The Wall Street Journal has published a list of what it considers to be the five most important M&A deals of 2010. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and 3Par are the first on the list. Hewlett-Packard acquired 3Par for $2.1 billion after battling with Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to take ownership of the...
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Following Potash Corp. Rejection, BHP Billiton Will Look To Sweet The Deal
Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 10:47am | 109Read More...The Canadian government has indicated that it will move to block BHP Billiton's (NYSE: BHP) acquisition of Potash Corporation (NYSE: POT), but will not render a final decision for 30 days, Dahlman Rose & Co. reports. “We anticipate that BHP will look to sweeten its tax, royalty and investment...
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If BHP Billiton's Bid For Potash Corp. Is Approved, Saskatchewan Will Sue Canada
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 10:47am | 141Read More...Saskatchewan might file a lawsuit against the federal government if Canada approves BHP Billiton Ltd.'s (NYSE: BHP) $40 billion hostile takeover offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT), Bloomberg reports. Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement plans to say whether Canada will...
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ArcelorMittal and BHP Billiton Terminate Discussions to Combine Assets in Liberia and Guinea
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 7:06am | 106Read More...ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) and BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) today jointly announced that they have ended preliminary discussions to combine the two companies’ iron ore mining and infrastructure interests in Liberia and Guinea into a single joint venture. The companies were unable to reach a commercial...
