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CSX Spells Trouble for Coal — or Does It?

CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) has some somber words for the U.S. coal sector, despite what has been a handy recovery in the share prices of many of the sector leaders. The ...
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Outlook 2013: The Case for a Coal Recovery

It is almost impossible to consider that troubles of such a magnitude could turn around in an instant, but that may actually be the case. We have taken a look ...
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2012 Election Winners and Losers: Coal, Dividends, Health Care, Utilities, Oil and More

Election Day has come and gone. President Obama won a second term. The current electoral vote was by a margin of about 3 to 2 (unofficial), but the percentage last ...
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Election Day Rally… Risk-On or Inflation Trade?

On the day that the Presidential election is happening, investors are throwing money into the inflation winners. The problem is that maybe this is not an inflation trade. Maybe it ...
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Railroad Stocks Falter on Coal Outlook (NSC, UNP, CSX, KSU, KOL)

Earlier this week, CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) reported quarterly results that were more or less in line with estimates, but the mix of shipments was not what the railroader was ...
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Coal Stocks Get a Dose of Reality (ANR, BTU, WLT, ACI, JRCC, CNX, CLD, KOL)

As natural gas prices rise along with a forecast for a colder winter in the U.S., U.S. coal stocks have benefited from a burst of enthusiasm since early October. Share ...
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Just Loving Coal is Not Enough

Following Governor Romney’s statement in Wednesday night’s presidential debate that, “I love coal,” coal stocks got a nice boost in yesterday’s trading, with shares rising nearly 12% at James River ...
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Analyst Drops Coal and Steel in Favor of Aluminum (BTU, WLT, NUE, ANR, ACI, ATI, RS, KOL)

The coal sector may not yet have found a bottom, or at least the prior gains from the bottom may be short-lived. That is the word from Bank of America/Merrill ...
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Rise in Coal Stocks Leads Energy Sector (JRCC, ANR, WLT, ACI, BTU, CNX, CLD, KOL)

Yesterday’s FOMC decision to provide more stimulus for the U.S. economy pushed stocks higher in every sector. The energy sector has done better than most as investors believe that economic ...
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Energy Stocks Mixed Up on Transactions, China (PXP, BP, RDS-A, RDS-B, RIG, ANR, BTU, KOL)

Energy stocks today exhibit all the signs of a market reacting to news that is difficult to categorize easily. First there is the $6 billion in acquisitions announced this morning ...
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Analysts Saying Arch (and maybe coal sector too) Has Bottomed

It was just on Friday that we signaled that the Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) share price reaction to its earnings report may have marked a bottom in the coal ...
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Arch Coal Earnings Report Offers Boost to Entire Battered Coal Sector (ACI, BTU, JRCC, KOL)

Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) is getting a huge boost after its earnings, and we would look for secondary and tertiary moves in the coal sector based upon this report. ...
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Bankruptcy News Killing Coal Miners (PCX, ACI, BTU, KOL, JRCC)

Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) was halted on a major downside move.  Bloomberg has reported that a bankruptcy filing is said to be coming as soon as today.  The headlines ...
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Coal Stands to Lose Even More Following Court Ruling (PCX, ANR, ACI, BTU, JRCC, WLT, CNX, CLD, KOL)

An appeals court in the District of Columbia has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency was “unambiguously correct” in taking steps to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The ...
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Coal Risks Live On with Rising Coal Supplies and Trends (KOL, BTU, ANR, JRCC, PCX, JOY)

It was good news on the surface that China decided to cut its overnight interest rates. We have not seen this since during the great recession and most expected China to ...
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