Commodities & Metals
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Normally you would expect to hear good news when you see a stock rise more than 5% after earnings. The problem is that Arch Coal is losing money, just losing less than analysts were expecting.
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ThinkstockWhat happened to that natural gas boom that was supposed to continue throughout 2014? We have certainly not had a cool summer universally in the United States, but it also turns out that...
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Chocolate prices closed just short of $3,200 per metric ton last Friday, after rising to a three-year high of $3,284 on Thursday. Hershey and Mars have raised candy prices due to commodity price...
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ThinkstockBy now, speculators and investors have learned over and over that gold is a very fickle commodity. The daily rationale for why gold rises and falls is sometimes hard to follow. China has...
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The one asset class that has befuddled investors over the past two years has been gold. Here are some of the top gold stocks that are followed by the J.P. Morgan analysts.
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ThinkstockThe World Gold Council is out with its first half of 2014 review of gold. Readers will want to at least consider that the council will of course look on the bright side. Still, its view...
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A new report from the precious metals team at RBC identifies several key winners in the gold mining stocks. These top gold mining stocks rated Overweight at RBC.
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ThinkstockThe story for gold is firming, and that is also for the gold miners. Sterne Agee’s metals and mining analysts have a report out on Thursday defending gold and the miners, on a day when...
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ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) has unofficially kicked off earnings season for the second quarter – and kicked it off with a bang! Whether or not the company is a true economic barometer has been...
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Alcoa is set to kick off the second-quarter earnings season when it reports after the close of trading Tuesday. Alcoa is transforming itself, taking it further away from its dependence on emerging...
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Agricultural products giant Archer Daniels Midland announced Monday morning that it will acquire Switzerland-based WILD Flavors for about $3 billion in cash and about $136 million in debt.
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ThinkstockHas the bear market in gold ended? Of course this depends on whom you are asking. Still, the gold charts are again pointing to a trend reversal — and the $1,325 or so that gold is trading...
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The aluminum company Alcoa is transforming. The company you used to know is upgrading itself and making its business model less and less dependent on basic aluminum trade.
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its preliminary report on June farm prices Friday afternoon. The all-products price index fell by 3 points month-over-month (2.6%) to 111,...
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DuPont issued a warning on quarterly and full-year earnings after markets closed Thursday. Investors seem to believe that what happened with DuPont will happen with other agricultural product...
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