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Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE: TRA) is back in the mergers and acquisitions spotlight as the target of CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF). If this sounds familiar, it is because CF tried to do a...
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Gold was supposed to keep eroding, or so its chart was indicating, earlier this week. But the weakening dollar vs. euro trade coming back and variations of rumors that China was buying that gold...
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It has been hard to not notice the sideways trading action in gold of late. Sure, you have the potential decline of the Euro, the rising dollar, mixed economic data globally, China keeping the...
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The International Monetary Fund says it will sell 191 tons of gold. The agency claims it needs the cash for lending. It may be that the IMF suspects that gold price will fall from their $1,100...
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We are getting more and more caution from technicians and fundamental analysts that bring back the notion and fears of another market correction. Some are expecting far worse than just a...
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CHINA AGRITECH, INC. (NASDAQ: CAGC) was having a great day with gains north of 7%. But at about 3:09 PM EST we saw a filing from the company.. the S-3… the ‘selling securities filing’ that...
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The Gartman Letter has been a key technical advisory service for years and years and has become one of the benchmark technical reports. We have already heard both billionaire George Soros and...
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Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) has been one of the amazing companies in an amazing sector, or at least it was back when the developing world was moving from one meal to two meals a day. The leaders in...
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Gold has been on a tear and has performed better than stocks in recent years. But we have now seen a pullback and gold is back under $1,100.00 per ounce. While you can still find plenty of gold...
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Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) kicked off earnings season this evening on news that is all in all not that exciting even if the reception is one of approval. The company said that it finished its fourth...
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Jim Cramer continued on his theme stock picks for 2010 on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight. We have already heard Cramer’s theme picks for homeland security, technology, ADRs, and for energy...
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Your wait for the platinum and palladium ETF products is over. Today marked the launch of the ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL). These...
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If you have ever wondered just how much exchange traded funds and exchange traded notes can run a market, you can forget about wondering how much the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) has helped to run...
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Chinese agriculture stocks, as measured by Tickerspy’s Chinese Agriculture Stocks Index (*CHAGR), are up over 6% today. Gains in Chinese agriculture stock were led by crop seed company Origin...
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Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) rose over 5.7% to a yearly high of $44.42, riding a wave of optimism concerning coal and metal stocks following signs that U.S. and Chinese manufacturing is...
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