thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Tuesday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 77 billion cubic feet for the week ending October 11, compared with an expected build of about 75…
ThinkstockThe steel industry tends to go with the pulse of U.S. and international economic growth. Mired in slow growth for years, the top steel stocks became relegated to the Wall Street doghouse. They were…
ThinkstockFreeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The mining company posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.79 on revenues of $6.17 billion. In the…
ThinkstockAfter reporting third-quarter results Thursday, Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) jumped more than 9%, before ending the day about 3.7% higher. On Friday morning, shares tried to make a comeback, but they were trading…
ThinkstockPeabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Thursday morning. The coal miner’s adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) came to $0.05, on revenues of $1.8 billion. In the same…
ThinkstockMolycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is becoming an expert at screwing its investors. If anyone wanted a “death before dilution” company in their portfolio, they have been slaughtered over and over here. The supposed rare…
ThinkstockOn signs that U.S. lawmakers could be making progress toward resolving their differences over the debt ceiling and the government shutdown, gold futures dropped to a new three-month low early Tuesday. That took back…
thinkstockAfter Russian potash producer Uralkali pulled out of the Belarusian Potash Co., a potash marketing group formed with Belarus’s Belaruskali, Belarus took the occasion to nab Uralkali’s CEO and toss him into a Belarusian…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 90 billion cubic feet last week, compared with an expected build of about 96 billion cubic feet anticipated…
ThinkstockThe federal government has been buying sugar since June as it is required to do by law when the price falls below $0.21 a pound. Uncle Sugar indeed! A report at Bloomberg indicates that…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 6.8 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 370.5…
ThinkstockAubrey McClendon, co-founder and former CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), has raised about $1.7 billion for the new company he founded almost as soon as the ink was dry on his firing…
ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) has just kicked off earnings season, and it was probably more than just a timing coincidence that Alcoa’s shares were downgraded this morning ahead of the numbers. Amazingly, the initial…
ThinkstockAt the week-long metals conference known as LME week, CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) on Tuesday said it will launch an aluminum contract on an as-yet undetermined date. The contract will challenge the London…
ThinkstockAfter markets closed on Monday night, activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed that he had accumulated a stake of nearly 6% in Canadian independent oil and gas exploration and production company Talisman Energy Inc. (NYSE:…