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Gold Fields Ltd. (NYSE: GFI) is so far managing to buck the news as its shares are up slightly. The problem is that the news around its forward guidance is absolutely atrocious, if you pay attention...
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The U.S. trade balance (what has really been the trade deficit for two decades or more) came in at -$44.2 billion, and that was virtually in line with the Bloomberg consensus reading of -$44.0...
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Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) is generally thought of the company that kicks off the trends of earnings season. The reality and perception of this may be up for debate, but nonetheless Alcoa is a DJIA...
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Here we go again. We’d all feel cheated if a year were to pass without chatter about the possibility of a takeover of Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA). In 2007, BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) was said to be...
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Farmers were panicking this summer, dealing with the worst drought to hit the US in five decades, but from this disaster progress is blossoming in the form of a drought-tolerant corn seed and a...
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported this morning that its global food price index rose to 216 in September, up 1.4% (3 points) from August. The rise is attributed to...
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Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) reported a fiscal fourth-quarter 2012 adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.44 on revenue of $2.1 billion. In the same period a year ago, the fertilizer and...
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Chemical & Mining Co. of Chile Inc. (NYSE: SQM) or Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA, has lost its 20-year concession to produce lithium awarded recently through a public tender from the...
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Vancouver-based Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. (NYSEMKT: PBM) has been denied permission to develop a mine in British Columbia, and the stock price is plummeting on the news. The provincial government...
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Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) reported fiscal first quarter 2013 diluted adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.03 on revenue of $2.5 billion. In the same period a year ago, the fertilizer maker reported...
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The board of directors of mining company Xstrata has recommended that shareholders accept the most recent offer from commodities trading house Glencore International. The offer includes an exchange...
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The price of gold has risen by about $200 an ounce since the end of June and has scored about half that gain since the first of September. The yellow metal is on its way to posting its best quarterly...
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Saying that demand will be soft and prices will be low, Moody’s today changed its outlook for the U.S. steel industry to ‘negative’, indicating that conditions in the steel business will get...
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(Due to a publishing format issue, this story was republished from 1:00 PM EST) Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT) is seeing its shares hold up rather well compared to a few headlines on...
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From a mid-August peak of a record $8.49 a bushel, corn December futures have fallen to around $7.40 a bushel today. The spread between corn for December 2012 delivery and March 2013 delivery has...
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