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ThinkstockDiamond company Harry Winston Diamond Corp. (NYSE: HWD) has agreed to purchase the Ekati diamond mine from the Canadian subsidiary of BHP Billiton PLC (NYSE: BHP) for $500 million. BHP owns...
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thinkstockA previous forecast price for corn of $9 a bushel was lowered by $0.75 following last week’s U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recept World Agricultural Supply and Demand...
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ThinkstockTitanium Metals Corp. (NYSE: TIE) was not the most well known metals outfit out there with its $2 billion market value. Now the company is being acquired in a $2.9 billion buyout from...
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thinkstockBack in July, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) warned that an El Niño weather pattern was forming in the eastern Pacific Ocean, threatening the Northern Hemisphere with a warmer,...
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ThinkstockMolycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) shares were holding up fine after earnings, but the company’s 10-Q Filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission listed an SEC investigation that went back...
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ThinkstockInvestors were buying gold yesterday on the belief that newly re-elected President Obama will not be able to come up with a way to avoid having the U.S. economy fall off the fiscal cliff at...
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ThinkstockJames River Coal Co. (NASDAQ: JRCC) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. The mining company posted a net loss of $0.59 per share on revenues of $288.1 million. In the same...
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ThinkstockRandgold Resources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GOLD) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. The gold mining company posted basic earnings per share (EPS) of $1.12 on revenues of $319.87...
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ThinkstockWhen Silver Wheaton Corp. (NYSE: SLW) reported third-quarter results yesterday, the silver miner noted that lower sales and lower prices hit both revenues and profits, down 13% and 11%...
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ThinkstockGold prices are down nearly 2% today and gold mining stocks are taking their lumps right along with the yellow metal. Today’s U.S. jobs report has pumped some air into the greenback,...
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ThinkstockAlpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. The coal mining company posted a net loss of $0.16 per share on revenues of $1.46 billion. In the...
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ThinkstockGold miners have been hit hard in the past 12 months by falling prices for the yellow metal and by higher mining costs. Over the course of the past year, prices are nearly flat, down just...
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ThinkstockBarrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. The gold miner posted adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.85 on revenues of $3.44 billion. In the same...
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ThinkstockUnited States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) has reported its third-quarter results and its income from operations came to $171 million. Net income was $44 million, or $0.28 per share, but that is...
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thinkstockArcher Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM) reported fiscal first-quarter 2013 earnings this morning. The agribusiness giant posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.50 on revenues...
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