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Last week’s change in Australian prime ministers has produced an early result for mining companies with assets in the country. A proposed excess profits tax of 40%, put forth by the former...
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The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks global shipping rates, has fallen for 24 consecutive days, its longest losing streak since August 2005. The BDI closed at 2,406 yesterday, its lowest point since...
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The hits just keep on coming for Monsanto Corp. (NYSE:MON). The company today reported third fiscal quarter EPS of $0.81 on revenue of $2.96 billion. EPS estimates had been $0.80 and revenues were...
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The gold trade is becoming too concentrated. For a nearly free-market mentality, this almost hurts to say. The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) has just become too large. The company’s website...
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Gold ETFs are still getting larger. There is a filing from the iShares COMEX Gold Trust (NYSE: IAU) that will appear excessive just because of the vast share count of up to 409,800,000 shares. ...
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It is easy to forget that, unlike money, there is a limited supply of gold. Government printing presses have been hard at work since the beginning of the recession. The mining of gold may have picked...
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Gold has effectively decoupled from everything. Markets rise, gold is up. Markets fall on uncertainty, gold is up. Dollar strength, gold is up. Euro strength, gold is up. Oil falls on...
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Despite earnings warnings and lower guidance throughout 2009, analysts and investors chased up the potash and agriculture names due to the various potash and agriculture companies talking up forward...
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Over the past year, gold prices have jumped by about a third, from around $900/ounce to over $1,200/ounce. And while the ETFs that track gold bullion and gold miners are showing gains for the past 12...
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Last week, USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU) announced a $200 million investment from Toshiba Corp. and Babcock & Wilcox that would be spread out over three phases. Each of the investors will pitch in $100...
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The ETF universe for metals is getting larger in new assets. ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL) are getting larger via share sales. This is...
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On April 19th, Molycorp, Inc., a privately held company, filed with the US SEC for an IPO. The company did not say how many shares would be offered nor did it indicate an IPO price range. It did say...
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It is the weekend, and that means it is time for the new list of our UNUSUAL SUSPECTS for stocks on the move that need to stay on the radar or those that have events coming up this week. This...
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China consumed 864 million metric tons of coal in the first quarter of 2010. Thermal coal consumption to generate electricity totaled 444 million metric tons and metallurgical coal consumption,...
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Perhaps one way to get a read on where housing construction in the US is headed is to look at the companies who supply the lumber that goes into new construction. Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (NYSE:LPX)...
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