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Monsanto reported disappointing third-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Wednesday morning. And Monsanto launched a new $10 billion share buyback program.
A Sterne Agee research report is calling Coeur Mining stock grossly undervalued -- and its share price could double! They cited a royalty agreement and the Guadalupe project development.
Turquoise Hill Resources announced Monday that the company received an audit report from the tax authority of Mongolia claiming the company owes unpaid taxes and penalties associated with the...
ThinkstockChina’s shadow banking system has long depended on the use of stockpiles of commodity minerals in the country’s warehouses as collateral for loans that do not show up in China’s...
AK Steel saw its shares surge Monday on news that Bank of America Merrill Lynch issued a crucial upgrade for the stock. One has to recall that steel has been challenged as a sector.
After hitting a peak of around $2.15 a pound in mid-April, coffee prices have moderated to around $1.70 a pound for arabica beans. So why did J.M. Smucker announce that it was raising its prices on...
ThinkstockWith new Obama-led EPA rules for coal-powered electric utilities out, investors and traders have had yet one more reason to dump their coal stocks. The long and short of the matter is that...
ThinkstockGold is not having a good year again so far in 2014, and the recent trends from the World Gold Council seem to indicate that the old path to $2,000 gold is just not in the cards any time...
Analysts at UBS attempted to look forward two to three years to assess whether there will be more bankruptcies in the coal sector. Four stocks hit their radar screens.
ThinkstockBig banks that once made big bucks in physical commodities markets are now looking to pull out of those markets as new rules regarding capital requirements for those physical holdings take...
ThinkstockNow that gold has pulled back from a peak of around $1,900 per ounce to less than $1,300 per ounce, many of the gold bugs have disappeared. What is interesting is that the actual demand in...
ThinkstockIndia is supposed to be back open for business. After Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority, this is supposed to be solid for getting India back in business without...
ThinkstockAs of the end of trading on Tuesday, coffee closed on the ICE at about $1.84 a pound, down from a peak of around $2.12 in the middle of April. In early November, coffee was selling for just...
ThinkstockCommodity metals are having a tough time lately. Investor enthusiasm for metals has fallen, and its only necessary look at the price of gold to see why. Equities are where investors want to...
Shares of London-based mining company Rio Tinto got a boost in premarket trading in the U.S. Monday after an analyst upgrade of the mining sector that also helped lift stocks in European trading.