World Running Out of Water
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Ag, Fertilizer Stocks Could Be Headed for a Stall (POT, BG, ADM, MON, MOS, MOO)
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 ...Read Full Story »
Caterpillar Crushes Estimates With Strong Guidance (CAT, DE, JOYG, CNH, AGCO, MOO)
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 ...Read Full Story »
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)
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 ...Read Full Story »
Demand for Grain to Lift Fertilizer Prices (MOS, POT, AGU, MON, CF, SYT, MOO)
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 ...Read Full Story »
China’s Corn Shortage and a Lack of Solutions
China’s Ministry of Agriculture said it will have to make an extraordinary effort to increase the nation’s supply of corn. That assumes the government can control the weather, the quality ...Read Full Story »
Cargill Trusts Uses Mosaic S&P 500 News To Sell More Shares (MOS)
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) might have been indicated higher on the news that it was going to be added to the S&P 500 Index, but news of yet another ...Read Full Story »
No Ethanol Subsidy, No Problem (BG, RDS-A, CZZ, ADM, VLO, PEIX, GPRE, PBR, FUE)
What will happen to ethanol makers when the US subsidy ends in December, as appears increasingly likely? Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) apparently believes that demand will continue strong, at least ...Read Full Story »
New Uncertainty in Farm Equipment Sales (DE, CNH, AGCO, CAT, CF, POT, DBA, MOO)
Farm equipment maker Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) reported fiscal third quarter EPS of $1.69 this morning, just $0.02 better than analysts' consensus estimate. Revenue totaled $8.37 billion, significantly better ...Read Full Story »
Food, Ethanol Prices Set To Rise Again (ADM, DE, POT, VLO, PEIX, GPRE, KFT, SJM, GIS, K, TSN, HRL, SFD, MOO, DBA)
Hot, dry weather is now expected to reduce the US corn harvest and lift consumer prices for everything from breakfast cereal to pump prices at the local service station. Agricultural ...Read Full Story »
Are There Winners If Oil Falls to $80? (XOM, CVC, COP, SD, VLO, MPC, TSO, WNR, UAL, DAL, AMR, LUV, DRYS, DSX, UNP, CSX, NSC, FDX, UPS, ADM, POT, MOS, CF)
The price for WTI crude oil fell below $83/barrel momentarily today as the market takes another shellacking, down around 200 points just before noon. Both crude and the wider market ...Read Full Story »
AgFeed Joins More China Woes (FEED)
More woes are coming out of China regarding Chinese companies... AgFeed Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEED), an animal nutrition and commercial hog producer in China, has given a preliminary report on ...Read Full Story »
2011 Becomes Year of Biofuel IPOs… Renewable Energy Files (REGI, KIOR, SZYM, GEVO, AMRS, CDXS)
2011 may be off to a "Web 2.0 IPO Year" but it might just as easily be "The Year of Biofuel IPOs"... Biodiesel maker Renewable Energy Group Inc. has filed ...Read Full Story »
M&A Twist: BHP Snags Petrohawk for $12.1 Billion (BHP, HK, CHK, XOM, POT, FCG)
The largest mining company in the world just got a little bigger. Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) has agreed to acquire Petrohawk Energy Corp. (NYSE: HK) for $12.1 billion, ...Read Full Story »
More US Corn for Ethanol Than Anything Else (ADM, VLO, PEIX, GPRE)
More than 40% of this year's US corn harvest, about 5.05 billion bushels, is expected to be used to produce ethanol. That surpasses an estimated 5 billion bushels that will ...Read Full Story »
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