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Glencore, Xstrata Merger Now Complete

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 10:00 am

After more than a year of twists and turns and negotiations, the $75 billion merger between Glencore International and Xstrata became official today. The new company will also get a ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Positive Views from Wall Street

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 8:15 am

Investors and traders are on the lookout for fresh research ideas from Wall St. that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research ...
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Speculators Pulling Out of Commodities

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 11:15 am

Rising stockpiles of virtually every commodity had led to a sharp drop in long-dated noncommercial (speculative) futures. Slowing growth in the United States and elsewhere is getting the blame for ...
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Chinese Steel Production to Slow, Big Miners Could Suffer

Posted: March 25, 2013 at 2:25 pm

In an announcement today in Beijing, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top planning agency, said that steel production in the country has reached a point where only ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADT, BAC, BHP, CHK, CI, GLW, DE, EBAY, EA, JCP, JNPR, LULU, MNTA, OGE, RSH, RIO, TEF, RIG, UNM)

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 8:25 am

Investors and traders constantly seek new good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from the ...
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Glencore Follows Other Big Miners to Lower Profits

Posted: March 5, 2013 at 7:35 am

London-traded Glencore International has been making news for more than a year now for its takeover of Xstrata, a mining company of which Glencore already owns about 40%. The company ...
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Glencore’s CEO Weighs In on Mining’s Future

Posted: February 26, 2013 at 10:50 am

We have already covered the sea change that is washing over the mining industry. Where past practice has been to invest heavily in new assets with the strategy that growth ...
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Miners Looking for More Gold — on Wall St.

Posted: February 22, 2013 at 8:40 am

Without going through all the changes in the top management of the world’s largest mining companies, there is one thing that stands about virtually all of these changes: putting more ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 21, 2013: Markets Turn South Early (GOOG, NKE, BHP, GRPN, UNH,CROX, ETP, PAAS, TSLA, WLT, AUY, CG, CHK, CDE, ESV, SWY, WMT, AGU, AIG, FTR, HPQ, MRVL, NEM, JWN, ANF, EGO, PAY, PRKR, QCOM, RPRX)

Posted: February 21, 2013 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning and continued a slow downward slide throughout the day. In Europe, flash PMI data from the eurozone came in below expectations on both ...
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Mining Call: Three to Five Year Challenges Awaiting New CEOs

Posted: February 21, 2013 at 1:14 pm

Investors of BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) have taken a beating along with many other mining investors in recent days. There is an interesting multi-year outlook piece around ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BCS, BHP, GME, GOOG, GRPN, HD, LOW, MA, V, NKE, OPEN, TLM, TSLA, UNH, PAY, OMX, ODP)

Posted: February 21, 2013 at 8:40 am

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) raised to Outperform at Bernstein. BHP Billiton Ltd. ...
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Media Digest (2/20/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 6:15 am

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) gets an agreement with a key engineering unit. (Reuters) China says U.S. claims of hacking by one of its army units does not have sufficient technical ...
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Barrick Posts Big Net Loss Due to $4 Billion Write-Down

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 7:35 am

Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 earnings before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the gold miner posted adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.11 ...
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Credit Suisse 2013 Energy Summit Survey: Oil & Gas Investors Are Very Bullish (CS, APC, NBL, PXD, EOG, MRO, HES, APA, DVN, OXY, COP, MUR, XOM, CHV, BHP)

Posted: February 7, 2013 at 1:02 pm

The results are in from the Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) 2013 Energy Summit, and investors who were interviewed and surveyed by the Swiss bank remain bullish on the energy ...
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Mining Companies Wrote Off Almost $50 Billion Last Year

Posted: January 30, 2013 at 2:11 pm

Everything about the mining industry is big, so it should come as no surprise that when things don’t work out as planned, the mistakes are big too. Two mining CEOs ...
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