On the face of it, shares of copper and gold miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX) should be trading down about 2.5% after the company’s Tuesday night earnings report. Instead the shares have…
Paul Ausick As the Brexit fears faded and the markets headed for new all-time highs, short sellers remained focused on their favorite stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
While short sellers shied away from many of the most heavily shorted stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange between the June 15 and June 30 settlement dates, GE bucked that…
After last Friday’s 600+ point drop in the Dow, the reality is that the United States held up much better than Europe. Bank stocks were hammered and many European key stocks were…
These are the 10 NYSE companies with the most shares sold short as of June 15. Share in deeply troubled Brazil metal giant Vale SA (NYSE: VALE) dropped 6.8% to 180,527,026. Shares…
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday morning, Freeport-McMoran Inc. (NYSE: FCX) announced a debt-for-equity swap in which the company issued 19.9 million shares of common stock…
Paul Ausick Perhaps the move for a rapid exit by Britain from the European Union (or Brexit) may have been interrupted due to a political murder of M.P. Jo Cox on Thursday. As this…
Here are two stocks that likely will benefit from the chaos that surely will ensue if the United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union on June 23.
It may have been the time of "sell in May and go away," but it seems the short sellers were neither strongly for nor against the notion.
These three compelling value stocks make good sense for patient growth investors with a solid long-term time horizon.
Clearly the value for investors with these stocks lies in the fact that most are trading way below former highs, and they all offer solid entry points.
In a new Jefferies research report, the analysts circle in on stocks they feel are compelling values for investors now. We like three of the companies in particular.
However, one medical supply company stood out, as short sellers piled on Baxter International in the first two weeks of the month.
Less than two weeks after cancelling contracts for two ultra-deepwater drill ships, Freeport-McMoRan announced late Monday that it has cancelled a third one.
Freeport-McMoRan has formally withdrawn its proposed spin-off and initial public offering in its oil and gas business into a company that would have been named Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas.
