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CME Lowers Energy & Metals Margin Trading Requirements (CME, GLD, USO, SLV, JJC)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:37 pm

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, ...
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iShares Launching Commodity Production ETFs To Take Share (BLK, VEGI, MOO, FILL, DIG, PICK, XME, RING, GDX, SVLP, SIL)

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 10:33 am

They say there is an ETF for just about any investing strategy and just about any sector.  Today, there are five new ETFs hitting the market from BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) ...
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Is Corn This Serious For Potash & Fertilizer? Yes, Maybe (MOS, POT, CF, IPI, MOO)

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 11:26 am

Fertilizer stocks are on skid row after the U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed that the unsold corn supplies from December were down about 1% less than what analysts were ...
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Fertilizer Maker Cuts Phosphate Production (MOS, POT, AGU, MON)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 8:07 am

Low prices for phosphate fertilizer products have forced The Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) to cut production by up to 250,000 tons in the first quarter of 2012. Fertilizer makers Potash ...
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Corn Crop Booms, Prices to Fall (ADM, VLO, HML, TSN, GIS, K)

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 11:38 am

Fears for a supply shortage of corn earlier this year led the world’s farmers to plant more of the crop on expectations of higher prices. Now that the crop is ...
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Did Potash & Fertilizer Stocks Just Become Value Stocks? (MOS, POT, IPI)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings may have given agriculture, potash, and fertilizer investors an early, yet so far unnoticed, Christmas gift.  The Singapore fund has taken roughly a 6.5% stake ...
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Farming Pays Big: Higher Income & Asset Values Drive Farming in 2011 into 2012

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 6:31 pm

The next time you sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" you might want to consider that it is really "Rich Man McDonald" if the USDA report is as clear as ...
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Mosaic Manages Positive Cargill Share Buyback (MOS)

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 9:26 am

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is joining in on the stock buyback bandwagon.  This is not a traditional share repurchase in the open market because the 21.3 million shares being ...
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The Ten Foods Making Thanksgiving Much More Expensive

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm

The cost of a standard American Thanksgiving dinner keeps rising. In 2001, the holiday meal cost $35.04. This upcoming holiday, it will be nearly $50. According to a report by ...
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Food Processing Stocks With Most Upside (ADM, BG, TSN, SFD, CPO, CAG, KFT, SLE, GIS, K)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 3:01 pm

The companies we’re looking at today run the gamut from large farm and food products producers to the packaged goods makers that make the products on store shelves. It’s a ...
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World Running Out of Water

Posted: October 28, 2011 at 6:30 am

The world is low on water, from the standpoint of supply needed for human use, and the problem has grown rapidly. Worse still, the problem has no ready solution -- ...
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Ag, Fertilizer Stocks Could Be Headed for a Stall (POT, BG, ADM, MON, MOS, MOO)

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 9:31 am

Fertilizer maker Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT) reported third-quarter earnings this morning that were more than double earnings for the same period a year ago. But in ...
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Caterpillar Crushes Estimates With Strong Guidance (CAT, DE, JOYG, CNH, AGCO, MOO)

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 9:35 am

Excluding the impacts of absorbing its recent acquisition of Bucyrus International, Inc., Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) posted an all-time high in sales, revenue, and profits in the third quarter. Even ...
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Drop in Copper and Corn Prices May Be Overrated (FCX, SCCO, BHP, RIO, MON, ADM, BG, POT, MOS, VLO, PEIX, JJC, CU, CORN, MOO, DBA)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 10:45 am

Since the beginning of September, copper and corn prices have fallen dramatically, with copper off nearly -35% from its 12 month high and corn off about -25%. Because both are ...
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Demand for Grain to Lift Fertilizer Prices (MOS, POT, AGU, MON, CF, SYT, MOO)

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 10:29 am

Fertilizer maker The Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2012 after markets closed yesterday, and the company posted earnings and revenues that were in-line ...
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