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Canadian miner Teck Cominco (NYSE:TCK) is changing its name to Teck Resources, and the company intends to build its brand just on the name Teck. The new name takes effect legally in April 2009. In...
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Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) today raised its 2008 guidance again. This is in response to the clear drop in the agriculture and fertilizer sector weakness. Roundup, other glyphosate-related...
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Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) is being slaughtered this morning. Any hopes that agriculture was going to be cool again are gone. The phosphate and potash producer’s earnings missed the bar by what might...
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South African gold miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) posted its fiscal year 2008 earnings today. The company has been hit hard by higher costs, lower production, and a cave-in that killed eight...
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CONSOL Energy (NYSE:CNX) announced a dramatic change in its guidance for the third quarter. Production is expected reach just 15 million tons, well below even the low estimate of 16.4 million tons in...
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Back in July we noted that two big gold miners were pulling back on 2008 guidance. Barrick (NYSE:ABX) and Goldcorp (NYSE:GG) were both predicting production at the lower end of guidance and rising...
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Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) raised fiscal 2008 earnings estimates. The crop and agriculture player now sees earnings of $3.58 to $3.60 per share. It also gave reported guidance of $3.49 to...
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London-based Rio Tinto (NYSE:RTP) reported earnings for the first six months of 2008, and the numbers were very impressive. Net earnings reached $6.9 billion, up 113% from the first half of 2007. The...
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In the past 52-weeks, the stock price of five large coal companies has risen anywhere from 50% to nearly 250%. But that’s still between 27% and 42% below annual highs that the companies reached in...
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The largest mining company in the world, BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) today reported revenues of $59.47 billion and EPS of $2.75 for its full 2008 fiscal year ended June 30th. Analysts were expecting...
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Rhino Resources, Inc. (NYSE: RNO) is supposed to price its IPO this evening for Friday trading, or at least that is what we had on our IPO calendar at the start of the week. The IPO is still on...
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Today’s earnings report from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) not only missed analyst’s targets, but may have missed the broad side of the barn. Analyst expected EPS of $0.67, and got EPS of...
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Mathematics and statistics were almost certainly created to support spurious thinking, although the school systems later developed other uses for them. The headlines across the business media belted...
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So much for high gold prices translating to earnings. Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:ABX) and Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE:GG) both reported second quarter numbers before market open today, and both reports were...
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After today’s close, we’ll get to see earnings out of Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS). The fertilizer and potash giant is expected to post $1.64 EPS on $2.85 Billion in revenues. Estimates for next...
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