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Newmont Mining Corp. (NYSE: NEM) is up this morning after beating earnings expectations. It seems that they might be implying that gold producers will not just have to beat earnings to continue...
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The fight over winning a Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) is heating up. Whether BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) can ultimately win backing of the merger at its current price from holders is...
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Gold will reach $10,000 an ounce, or so says investment manager Shayne McGuire, who runs a $330 million gold portfolio at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, according to The Wall Street...
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Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) is a company we feared would not really trade around its earnings and guidance. The real news is still its pending offer from BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP),...
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Van Eck Global has a history of launching niche ETF products. Today’s launch of Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (NYSE: REMX) is no exception. This new ETF is the first ETF for US...
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Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is surging today along with some rare earth companies. Today’s news is not that China is lowering rare earth oxides and rare earth elements, it is that an ETF for...
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PaulVolcker, the aged former Fed chairman, says that quantitive easing poses little threat to the economy. “Inflation is not a problem right now. It won’t be a problem next year, it won’t be a...
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They say there is an ETF for just about any strategy. Gold investors and other precious metal investors are now getting a new ETF that will trade as a single basket of metals. The ETFS Physical...
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Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is showing that earnings on strong in infrastructure. The giant equipment maker posted earnings of $1.22 EPS and revenues of $11.1 billion. Thomson Reuters had...
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Tuesday’s drop in gold may be a culmination of many things and Wednesday’s attempt at a recovery needs to be watched closely. Profit taking, China rate hike, currency extremes with reversal,...
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Practically from the time of the announcement by BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) that it was offering $38.6 billion to acquire Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT), the provincial government of...
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The international concern over China’s cut in exports of the rare earth elements, REEs, has just been ratcheted up a notch as a Chinese government official said that the country might trim another...
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Last April’s mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners in the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years. Massey Energy Co. (NYSE: MEE), the mine’s owner, has taken a beating ever...
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The coal sector has enjoyed much of the same run that has been seen by other commodities of late. Coal companies and commodities companies are about to start reporting earnings and we wanted to see...
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Higher ethanol, potash demand, ag-super-mergers, surging food prices… and now an ETF crossing the $2 billion in assets mark. You have to ask if a bubble is being formed in agriculture. Today...
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