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ThinkstockShares in junior gold miner Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (NYSEMKT: NAK) got slammed late on Friday following an announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the...
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ThinkstockIt’s been known for a long time that livestock, primarily cows, pigs and sheep, emit a lot of pollutants into the atmosphere. Just last week, a build-up of methane in a barn in Germany...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its preliminary report on February farm prices Friday afternoon. The all-products price index rose by 7 points month-over-month (7.1%) to...
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ThinkstockAs the Dow’s upward momentum has slowed, enough investors have returned to gold to take it through $1,300. Consequently the gold equities index (HUI) is up 21% so far this year. The...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 100,000 barrels last week,...
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Gold prices may have tumbled in 2013, but gold has tried to make a significant recovery at the start of 2014. These are the seven nations that make up the world's largest gold holders and that keep...
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ThinkstockNatural gas prices climbed above $6 per million BTUs on Wednesday for the first time in 5 years. The price peaked at around $6.30 in intraday trading on Thursday but has fallen below $6 a...
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Shares of Yamana Gold have bounced about 23% off their 52-week low of $8.31 set on December 2. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday, missing estimates and cutting the dividend by...
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24/7 Wall St. has been covering this latest attempt by gold and gold-mining stocks to break out of their recent range. A report from Sterne Agee projects that gold and silver are fighting the...
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ThinkstockGold is back. After challenging $1,200 per ounce in December, gold bugs have become bullish again and the shiny yellow metal is back above $1,300 per ounce. Now a key technical milestone...
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ThinkstockIt has not been an easy time for gold bugs over the last year or so. Now imagine being a gold miner or producer when gold prices were cratering. Many producers and miners are still taking...
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ThinkstockBeing in the gold mining and production business sure lost its luster, compared to when gold was on its way up to $2,000 per ounce. All things, even bad things, can come to an end — maybe...
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Cliffs Natural Resources sent an open letter to its shareholders on Friday morning responding to a letter from activist investment firm Casablanca Capital urging the company to take a number of...
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Alpha Natural Resources reported smaller than expected net losses per share for the fourth quarter and full year 2013 before markets opened Wednesday. Shares were down in premarket trading.
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ThinkstockAn analyst at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has raised its price target on Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) from $12 to $15, a jump of about 36% from the stock’s trading price of around $11...
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