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Despite earnings warnings and lower guidance throughout 2009, analysts and investors chased up the potash and agriculture names due to the various potash and agriculture companies talking up forward...
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Have you noticed how so many commodity rallies in gold and oil get stopped in their tracks on what might seem as secondary or even tertiary cause and effect? This has been something very defined in...
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The volcano in Iceland is still spewing ash into the air. While many Americans have discussed investment banking scandals, the volcano situation in Iceland is affecting far more than many might...
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The under-developing world needs food while the developed world is full. US crop yield reports sunk commodities prices as the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Prospective Plantings numbers showed...
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The Wall Street Journal reports that millions of acres of prime American farmland will be destroyed this year by a plague of grasshoppers. The paper reports that “grasshoppers will likely hatch in...
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How many quarters have we had to hear from fertilizer and potash companies that the earnings results will be disappointing but good news is closer rather than farther away? This has been the trend...
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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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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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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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The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (NYSE: AGM), a.k.a. Farmer Mac, today raised additional capital. The capital came via a sale in a private offering of shares of non-cumulative...
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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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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) rose over 10% to a yearly high of $7.33 after the computer processor maker announced today that it would offer $500 million in senior notes, the cash from...
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Sometimes special dividends make sense, and sometimes they do not. Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) traded lower most of the trading day after the fertilizer and potash giant declared a special cash dividend...
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CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE: CF) rallied over 4% to a yearly high of $95.06 after Agrium Inc. announced that it had extened its offer to acquire CF Industries holding for $40 in cash and a share...
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The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) was one stock where we noted that the bar for earnings expectations was very low. The fertilizer and potash player came even lower. It posted $0.23 EPS rather...
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