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Independent research firm Argus has downgraded Alcoa to a Hold rating and sees the stock fairly valued around $7.
Alcoa reported mixed fourth-quarter financial results and a update on its coming split after the markets closed on Monday.
Alcoa is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter earnings after the markets close on Monday, kicking off a new earnings season.
A new report from the analysts at RBC maintains that while gold stocks will remain volatile this year, investors should look for trading opportunities around core gold and silver equity holdings.
While analysts expect no real gains in commodity prices this year, many expect 2016 to be a bottom, so we could be at the very start of a global, long-term agriculture boom.
It has been nearly 15 years since the EPA banned the insecticide chlorpyrifos for residential use. The comment period ended for a total ban just ended.
In this 247 Wall St. series, we will focus on four stocks to buy and hold for 2016, each group of four in a different sector. The first focus will be commodity stocks.
Credit Suisse upgraded BHP Billiton to Outperform but revised estimates and target prices lower.
Since the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year, shares of Freeport-McMoRan have lost about 10% of their value.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its preliminary report on October farm prices Monday afternoon. The prices-received index declined 8 percentage points month-over-month to 89, with...
The last time the price of gold fell this low was just before New Orleans and QB Drew Brees won Super Bowl XLIV with a convincing win over the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning. That was February...
U.S. Department of Agriculture projects farm sector profitability will decline for the second straight year in 2015.
A Canadian company named Lucara Diamond announced on Wednesday that it had uncovered the world's second largest diamond ever found.
Gold may have lost some of its luster to investors, but demand trends remain perhaps more favorable than the price of gold might indicate in dollars.
In late September, Alcoa announced that it will split into two independent, publicly traded companies. This breakup has all the makings of a silly — and avoidable — mistake.