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Patriot Coal’s Starts Bloodbath for Coal Miners (PCX, BTU, ACI, CNX, ANR, JRCC, WLT, CLD, KOL)

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 1:24 pm

Shares of Patriot Coal Corp. (NYSE: PCX) are in freefall this afternoon on a report from Debtwire that the company is seeking a firm to help with its restructuring. The ...
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Lower EIA Oil & Energy Demand Projection Tempers Expectations (XOM, BHI, OIH, VLO, CHK, BTU, KOL)

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Oil demand is being revised lower in a new forecast by the Energy Information Administration.  The reality is that the demand erosion is modest at a mere 70,000 barrels per ...
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Coal Stocks Beaten Up on New EPA Emissions Rules (BTU, ANR, PCX, ACI, JRCC, KOL)

Posted: March 28, 2012 at 12:21 pm

Yesterday’s publication of proposed new carbon emissions rules related to electricity power generating plants have taken even more steam out of US coal company stocks. The new rules are generally ...
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Coal Stocks Lifted on Rumor of Buyout (WLT, BRK-A, BRK-B, BHP, AAUKY, ANR, BTU, PCX, KOL)

Posted: March 16, 2012 at 2:29 pm

British newspaper The Guardian has a blog post saying there is speculation that US coal miner Walter Energy Inc. (NYSE: WLT) could be a ripe for a takeover fight among ...
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Lower Coal Demand, Odd Investor Outlook (ANR, PCX, BTU, CNX, ACI, KOL)

Posted: February 6, 2012 at 12:12 pm

US coal miners had a tough fourth quarter and most are expecting the same conditions for at least the first half of 2012. Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR), Patriot ...
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What Recession? Coal Acquisitions Keep on Coming (BTU, MT, MACDF, ACI, WLT, RIO, ANR, AAUKY, BHP, VALE, PCX, KOL)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 9:55 am

While Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) and ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) haven’t been pursuing Australia’s Macarthur Coal Ltd. (OTC: MACDF) for more than a few months, the deal never really looked like ...
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Coal Miners Win a Meaningless Battle over Mountaintop Removal Mining (ACI, ANR, BTU, CLF, CNX, PCX, KOL)

Posted: October 7, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Coal company stock prices hit a five-year high in the summer of 2008, just before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy sent the entire global economy into a tailspin. Five-year lows hit ...
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Coal Trends: A Douple-Dip Recession Predicting Tool? (ANR, WLT, PCX, ACI, JRCC, YZC, KOL, FCX, JJC)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 10:50 am

Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) and Walter Energy Inc. (NYSE: WLT) are signaling some disturbing trends that only bring on more fears of recession.  The companies have both lowered ...
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M&A Value For American Coal Players? (WLT, KOL, CNX, BTU, ANR)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 9:56 am

Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE: WLT) is the next M&A target if the daily rumor mill has any truth to it.  The rumor is that Anglo American is weighing on whether ...
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Commodities Watch: Why Coal Is Back In Favor With Goldman Sachs (PCX, BTU, CNX, WLT, TCK, KOL)

Posted: June 20, 2011 at 12:32 pm

A Goldman Sachs analyst has raised the coal sector from 'Neutral' to 'Attractive' this morning. The big gainer was Patriot Coal Corp. (NYSE: PCX) which was raised from 'neutral' to ...
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Merger Bonanza, The Shrinking Coal Sector (ACI, ICO, ANR, MEE, WLT, RIO, RFLMF, CNX, BTU, PCX, JRCC, KOL)

Posted: May 2, 2011 at 10:12 am

Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) has finally pulled the trigger on an acquisition that has probably been in the works for months. The coal miner has announced an all-cash acquisition ...
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Screening for Value Stocks in Commodities (CLD, MOS, NEM, CVX, KOL, POT, GDX, XOM, COP)

Posted: April 11, 2011 at 8:01 am

We have recently begun filtering out value stocks in a sector by sector screen ahead of earnings season.  This latest batch is a commodities value screen, and we identified three ...
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The Eight ETFs Which Owe Japan (KOL, TAN, KWT, PBW, EWV, UNG, GAZ, NAGS)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 2:35 pm

The news coming out of Japan for its nuclear reactors is sadly starting to now get more media coverage than the vast death toll.  The projected death toll is somewhere ...
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Coal Sector Has Much More Than Arch’s Earnings Signal (ACI, BTU, MEE, ICO, PCX, CNX, KOL)

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Like demand for crude oil, demand for coal is being driven by China. The government's recent decision to limit domestic production means that other coal miners will be sending more ...
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Massey Energy Deal in the Works? (MEE, ANR, MT, PCX, ICO, WLT, WTNCF, KOL)

Posted: December 21, 2010 at 10:53 am

Since the CEO of Massey Energy Co. (NYSE: MEE) resigned earlier this month, the odds improved that the company would either be acquired or that it might go through a ...
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