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Closing Bell for Wednesday on Wall Street: Markets Open Lower, Stock Prices Rise All Day

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on relatively little economic data. In Europe, Germany reported that industrial production rose 1.2%, while a house price index in the U.K.rose 1.1% ...
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Closing Bell for Tuesday on Wall Street: Share Prices Push Indexes to All-Time Highs

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following an unexpected 0.25% cut in Australia’s key interest rate to a new level of 2.75%. Japan’s Nikkei reopened today after a two-day ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades and Cautious Views from Wall Street

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 8:25 am

Investors are used to seeing many Buy ratings from Wall St. analysts, but they often overlook or do not see when these analysts give lists of stocks to sell or ...
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Gold and Silver — Is the Shine Wearing Off? (GLD, ABX, NEM, KGC, SLW)

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 10:20 am

The banking crisis in Cyprus has dragged on for a week now, with threat projections ranging all the way from “dire” to “who cares.” It seems reasonable to assume that ...
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Commodity Alchemy: Turning Gold into Lead

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 1:08 pm

When the commodity traders at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) say that commodities may be oversold right now they exclude gold from the rest of the asset class. In ...
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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 15, 2013: Markets Continue to Limp Along (CSCO, GOLD, RIG, KGC, JCP, CBS, GG, AEP, BKW, CPB, SJM, TOWR, CRMT, ESRX, NI, WIN, XOOM, TRLA, END)

Posted: February 15, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning on better economic news out of Europe and basically good data in the U.S. In Europe, the eurozone trade balance came in ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CTL, CSCO, GRMN, GNRC, GFI, HAIN, HBAN, JCP, KGC, MWW, NTGR, GOLD, RIG, URBN, YNDX)

Posted: February 15, 2013 at 8:45 am

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) cut to Hold from Buy at Argus, and ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 14, 2013: Markets Punt Again Today (CL, NVDA, LMT, DELL, VZ, AMAT, CAR, CTL, CSCO, CLD, IPI, KGC, MET, NTAP, PXD, TRIP, Z, ANR, ABX, DTV, GM, PEP, CBS, GG, AEP, BKW, CPB, SJM, TOWR, HNZ, ANGI)

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 3:59 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning, dragged down by weak economic data from Europe. Germany, France, Italy, and Greece all reported worse-than-expected GDP contraction for the fourth quarter of ...
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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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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 13, 2013: Markets Get No Direction Today (CLWR, GE, GRPN, CLF, PM, RATE, BWLD, CLWR, RAX, CMCSA, DF, DE, TOT, AMAT, CAR, CTL, CSCO, CLD, IPI, KGC, MET, NTAP, PXD, TRIP, Z, ANR, ABX, DTV, PEP, RSOL, BBRY, PPHM)

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a closely watched report on U.S. retail sales came in about as expected (more coverage here). U.S. business inventories rose less than ...
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Metals Stocks: Questionable Value for Rest of 2013 (GLD, SLV, GDX, GDXJ, SIL, ABX, GG, KGC, NEM, AUY, FCX, SLW, CDE, SWC)

Posted: February 8, 2013 at 9:05 am

There are a variety of ways to invest in precious metals. Buying gold or silver bars and coins is one, exchange traded products (ETFs) are another, and a third is ...
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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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