Commodities & Metals
Commodities & Metals Articles
A respected gold fund manager still sees gold going to $1,700.00 this year, with a likely year-end price around $1,600.00 per ounce. 24/7 Wall St. got a chance to interview Tom Winmill, portfolio...
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Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) and Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) are getting slaughtered after earnings reports that are both full of bad news ahead. Both are former glory stocks, and both are stuck and back...
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The Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) is finally about to be free from its shackles. We are just about to get past the long-awaited spin-off of this whopping 100 million shares that have been effectively held...
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Commodities have sold off. You already knew that. What has been seen in the precious metals complex looks a lot like what happened in the oil boom of 2007 to 2008, and many of the underlying...
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Glencore International AG has picked an interesting time to come public, and the IPO set for next week is already getting more interesting. While Reuters has reported that the firm is cutting off...
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Today’s commodities news is not quite a repeat of yesterday’s because oil is staying essentially flat and yesterday’s commodities sell-off is not being repeated. Wheat prices, however are...
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Silver and gold, and oil and other commodities, are heading south all over again this morning. Whether you want to blame reports of higher prices or a slowing of global growth is up to you, but a...
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Danish shipping giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S (OTC: AMKBF) posted profit of $1.22 billion for the first quarter on revenue of about $15.2 billion, both significantly better than the same period a...
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Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is about as frequently referred to a bubble-stock as you can imagine. So what happens when highly inflated stocks miss on earnings estimates? Investors sold shares hard...
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Today’s commodities news starts with a rise in margin requirements on crude oil contracts, and then looks at weather effects on both crude oil refining and US grain prices. We conclude with a look...
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Today’s commodities watch looks at a silver miner’s and a food producer’s quarterly earnings. And a quick look at how copper is coming back today. Silver and gold miner Coeur d’Alene Mines...
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Last week’s monumental drop in silver and the overall drop in commodities last week has some Monday morning buyers trying to find a bottom as new margin requirements kick in. Comes Gold was up...
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Crude collapsed from over $112 to under $100 in just a few days. The sell-off in silver was even more rapid and deeper. Agricultural commodities prices have fallen, in most cases, since the start of...
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Vale SA (NYSE: VALE), one of the world’s leading producers of iron ore posted record profit in the first quarter of $6.8 billion. Even discounting a one-time gain on the sale of $1.5 billion in...
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The Food and Agriculture Division of the United Nation reported that food prices remained mostly unchanged in April. That is hardly good news since February and March prices were, for many foods, at...
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