Intrepid Potash Sets IPO Terms (IPI)
Intrepid Potash, Inc. is getting closer to its upcoming IPO. The company set the terms in its amended IPO filing this morning. The filing shows an offering of some 24 million shares at a…
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Newest first · Page 127Goldman Sachs Raises ALCOA Estimates Ahead of Earnings (AA)
ALCOA, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is seeing shares trade higher ahead of its earnings report after today’s close. Goldman Sachs appears to be the initial reason as it has raised its targets on the Aluminum…
After Mosaic Earnings, Fertilizer Tastes Better Than Chicken (MOS, MOO)
Shares of Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) are surging pre-market after beating its earnings expectations. The company posted a record posted a record $520.8 million in net income, translating to $1.17 EPS from $2.15 Billion…
Monsanto Acquires European Seed Company (MON)
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) has just announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V., in The Netherlands. This is a Dutch-holding company that owns and operates De…
Agriculture Earnings Duel: Mosaic vs. Monsanto (MOS, MON, MOO)
This week we’ll get to see two important earnings reports out of agriculture leaders. Wednesday we’ll get to see earnings out of Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON). Two key calls of late are that Goldman…
Monsanto Raises Guidance, Right Ahead of Earnings (MON, MOO)
Monsanto (NYSE: MON) has just raised its guidance for earnings per share and for free cash flows. The company is now projecting $3.15 to $3.25 EPS for fiscal-2008 targets, up from its prior guidance…
Goldman Sachs Adds RIO to Conviction Buy List (RIO)
Goldman Sachs is maintaining its Buy rating this morning on Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (NYSE: RIO), but the firm is adding the stock to its Americas Conviction Buy List. Shares are down over…
Goldman Sachs & Massive Steel Prices (X, NUE, ATI, STLD, SCHN, GNA, WOR, AKS, ROCK, RS, CMC)
Goldman Sachs is out with a call raising its steel company earnings targets after above expectation steel prices and tighter supplies that represent a physical steel shortage. It sees some US steel prices rising…
Uranium Strategic Investment, Denison Mines and Uranerz (DNN, URZ)
Uranerz Energy Corporation (AMEX: URZ)announced that it will raise approximately $23.676 million (US Dollars) in funds via a brokered private placement of 4 million units and via a non-brokered private placement of 5.865 million…
McDonald’s (MCD), Sara Lee (SLE) And Wheat
The price of wheat has gone up three-fold in ten months. For something that looks like a weed, that is an impressive run. Since a large number of business from McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) to…
Agriculture ETF Wars: Commodity ETF Beats Stock ETF (MOO, DBA, TITN)
Investors seem to not be able to get enough when it comes to investing in agriculture now. This used to be a dead boring sector but it’s now the top performer with earnings visibility…
Cramer Hunts For Safe Harbor in a Storm: DuPont (DD)
Cramer went out tonight on CNBC’s MAD MONEY still looking for safe harbors in a storm, despite the strong market today and despite his noting that this trading rally could last 5 days. His…
US Pushes Bio-fuels Into Europe
According to The Guardian "The US is flooding Europe with subsidised biofuels that threaten to destroy Europe’s domestic refining market, the head of the biofuel company D1 Oils warned today as its shares lost…
Goldman Sachs Hikes Ag/Fertilizers (MOS, MON, MOO)
Goldman Sachs has come out positive on two companies that overlap in agriculture and fertilizer plays this morning, and it has raised estimates and targets: The firm recently visited Monsanto (NYSE: MON) and it…
Cramer’s New Play For $1,600 Gold (AEM)
Jim Cramer came out on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, predicting huge gains in gold and he thinks that the current sub-$1,000 per ounce prices may go to $1,600 per ounce. He started talking about…