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If you were told that gold miners were highly dependent on gold prices, you would probably respond immediately with a…
Farm equipment and machinery retailer Titan Machinery Inc. (NASDAQ: TITN) this morning reported second-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $0.25…
Commodities trading giant Glencore International has presented its final offer for mining giant Xstrata and it is substantially the same…
Quantitative easing is back on the table and back in traders’ pockets. Forget about what Ben Bernanke said at Jackson…
Literally minutes before shareholders of mining company Xstrata were set to vote on the offer from Glencore International, the vote…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released its annual report on household food security in the United States in 2011.…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesStocks are up Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.26%, the Nasdaq up 0.11%…
Three U.N. agencies — the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development…
A new report from the World Bank states what has been obvious for months: food prices have spiked so high…
Higher commodities prices and payments to farmers who purchased crop insurance have led the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conclude…
When the proposed $90 billion merger between Glencore International and Xstrata was first announced, the seeds of its failure were…
The recession did something interesting to platinum. It took away much of its relevance, and the rising gold prices helped…
U.S. rare earth minerals miner Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) announced after markets closed today that it had begun production at…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that its estimate for food price inflation did not change in July.…
Slowing global economic growth is cutting into sales of heavy construction and farming equipment in what were the world’s fastest…
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