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The president and CEO of Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE:TRA) has apparently purchased 100 shares of stock in CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) and requested CF to provide him with a list of all CF...
The proposed acquisition of CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) by Canadian firm Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU) is heading for the shareholders’ meeting on April 21st. CF Holdings has received an...
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) has seen its stock pounded by double-digit percentages today.  While economic woes are acting against it, ADM and Canadian Bioenergy Corporation announced...
Canadian fertilizer giant Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU) today filed its definitive proxy materials with the SEC in its effort to acquire CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF)  Agrium is asking CF...
Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU) sweetened its cash offer for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) by more than 10% last week. CF Industries has rejected the latest offer, repeating what has become CF’s...
We’ve been watching the fertilizer industry’s merger triangle of Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU), CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), and Terra Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRA) for a while now. In the...
For the second time in as many weeks, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) has rejected an offer from Agrium Inc. (NYSE:AGU), saying that “Agrium’s offer is grossly inadequate, substantially...
A Brazilian newspaper reports this morning that Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) may purchase the Brazilian ethanol group Unialco, together with a mill belonging to Da Mata. According to...
Agrium Inc.(NYSE: AGU) does not want to give up on its merger intentions.  The company issued a statement saying that the rejection by CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) of its proposed...
Fertilizer maker CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) this morning rejected a buyout offer from Canada’s Agrium, Inc. (NYSE: AGU). The stock and cash offer was valued at about $72/share of CF...
It seems that the fight to make or break ethanol is falling in the favor of the pro-ethanol crowd.  While many argue against ethanol, Brazil’s ethanol program at least makes more sense and has...
Barely a week ago, we noted that Terra Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRA) was likely to refuse an unsolicited offer from CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) because the deal included only 0.4325 shares...
Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) was lost in the financial shuffle today.  Perhaps it should not have been.  The stock rose up 8.5% at $43.05 today on more than double the normal volume.  Options were...
Canadian-based fertilizer maker Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) made an unsolicited offer for CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) earlier this week of one share of stock plus $31.70 cash for each CF...
Corn growers in Illinois have released a study they commissioned on the land use effects of ethanol plants. The growers wanted to counter the argument that demand for ethanol as a fuel additive was...