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ThinkstockSince the beginning of the year, gold miners stocks are down between 40% and 50% as the price of gold has dipped by 30%. It is about to get worse for the miners. Like big oil companies, big...
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Whether it is a question of gold and silver as a hedge, an industrial commodity or simply a straight contrarian stock trade, the J.P. Morgan team thinks now is the time to look hard at six top gold...
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Courtesy RosneftGlobal mega-bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) said late Friday that it has agreed to sell its global oil trading business to Russia’s state-controlled oil giant OAO Rosneft for an...
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Uralkali, the Russian half of the former Belarusian Potash cartel, said that its export price for potash had fallen 27% to $272 per metric ton (tonne) in the third quarter.
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ThinkstockCommodity prices took a sharp downward turn in 2013, but the good news appears to be that it will not get any worse in 2014. According a recent report, analysts at Moody’s Investors...
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ThinkstockThe Supreme Court of British Columbia issued a ruling late on Monday on a challenge by Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. (NYSEMKT: PBM) to an earlier ruling by the provincial government that...
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Thinkstock Can the U.S. coal mining industry in be saved? The forces arrayed against coal are formidable: environmental groups hate the stuff, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has...
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ThinkstockMosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) should probably be getting rewarded on news that it has reached an agreement to repurchase the remaining common shares held by the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and...
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ThinkstockThe yellow metal has lost about 30% of its value over the past year, from a high of nearly $1,700 an ounce to right around $1,200 an ounce. The companies that mine gold have done even...
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ThinkstockThe 86-year old founder and chairman of Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX), Peter Munk, will step down from his position as chairman of the company’s board of directors at the company’s...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe craze behind Bitcoin has been monumental. Some might even call it silly. In some ways, Bitcoin is acting just like gold did, but on steroids. Investors and speculators wanting an...
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London-based mining giant Rio Tinto said Tuesday that it plans slash its capital expenditure budget from around $14 billion this year to $11 billion in 2014 and $8 billion in 2015.
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ThinkstockWhat happens when everyone hates an investment or when everyone likes an investment? A contrarian investor would say it is time to go the other way. Gold has gone from shinola to you know...
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ThinkstockThe World Gold Council is out with its third-quarter gold demand trends. Despite soft gold prices, the council maintains that gold demand remains strong, even with many of the negative...
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ThinkstockThe price of spot gold has been hammered over the past year. The top American gold producers have gone through waves of restructuring and cost cutting in an effort to squeeze out profits as...
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