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Coal Miner Expects Continued Weakness in Demand

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 7:45 am

Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The coal miner posted an adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss for the quarter ...
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More Layoffs or Worker Furloughs Coming to Alcoa

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 10:55 am

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) remains pressured to build up its earnings in a very difficult environment. Now the company has announced that it will "review 460,000 metric tons of smelting ...
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Gold Miner Allied Nevada Scores $150 Million in Secondary Offering

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 11:10 am

Junior gold miner Allied Nevada Gold Corp. (NYSEMKT: ANV) announced this morning the purchase of 14 million shares of the company’s common stock by a syndicate of underwriters led by ...
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Gold Miner Takes Corporate Credit Downgrade, Gold Price Risk

Posted: April 29, 2013 at 2:57 pm

The latest recovery in the price of gold is not helping gold miners as much as some investors might think. In fact. Moody's Investors Service just issued a corporate credit ...
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Expect Dividend Hikes After Exxon and Chevron Earnings

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 12:00 pm

24/7 Wall St. has been tracking companies that raise their dividends for quite some time. This week both oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) ...
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Barrick Gold Earnings Recover from Fourth-Quarter Debacle

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 8:30 am

Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) reported first-quarter 2013 earnings before markets opened this morning. The gold miner posted adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.92 on revenues of $3.44 billion. ...
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The Brightest Lights So Far This Earnings Season

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 1:37 pm

As with any earnings season, the results that have come in so far for the first quarter of this year have been mixed. There have been some winners and some ...
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Sell in May and Go Away? A 2013 Primer and Catalysts

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 12:36 pm

Stocks have enjoyed a serious bull market, and we still have the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both up by double digits so far in 2013. ...
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Arch Coal Expects Improved Shipments, Earnings in 2013

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 8:40 am

Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the coal miner posted an adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of ...
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Gold Concern: Miners Lagging Price of Gold Metal on Upside

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 2:53 pm

The news flow over the weekend and on Monday helped to drive the price of gold higher after one monster sell-off this year. Reports of spot gold shortages and premiums ...
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What Weak Caterpillar Outlook Means to Global Mining and Metals in 2013

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 10:15 am

It was just at the end of last week that we gave a pre-earnings update for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) in our DJIA earnings season scorecard, warning that the market ...
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Are MLP Payouts at Risk of Losing Tax Advantages?

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 1:32 pm

The world of Master Limited Partnerships (or MLPs) has to go through adjustments from time to time as investors sometimes wonder about their tax consequences at a time when the ...
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World Gold Council Blames Speculators For Gold Price Crash

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 2:47 pm

As we said the whole way down, it may be a painful lesson or a fool's game to try to predict or to try to catch the bottom on the ...
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Earnings Surprise Brings Coal Sector Back into Focus

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 11:45 am

Shares of Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) rose as much as 3.2% this morning after the company posted first-quarter earnings that were considerably better than expected. Peabody’s earnings per share ...
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After Price of Gold Tanks, Bank of America Slashes Gold Target

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 10:00 am

The gold bugs are getting crushed ever harder as the price of gold is now well into a bear market. Gold is losing its biggest bulls on top of the ...
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