Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE:ACI)

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Arch Coal Gets Reorganization Plan Approved to Exit Bankruptcy

Posted: September 13, 2016 at 4:18 pm

Arch Coal, Inc. has announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has confirmed its amended plan of reorganization. The coal mining giant now expects ...
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Arch Coal’s Pre-Destined Bankruptcy Filing

Posted: January 11, 2016 at 8:50 am

The other shoe has dropped for Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI). The coal miner said Monday morning that as part of restructuring deal with its lenders, it and "substantially all" ...
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Coal Production Keeps Taking It on the Chin

Posted: January 7, 2016 at 2:21 pm

It's a crummy time to be a coal miner. If the political backlash against coal doesn't get you, you can bet your assets that warm winter weather will. A fresh ...
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Court Lets Mercury Rule Stand While EPA Counts the Cost to Coal Industry

Posted: December 15, 2015 at 1:40 pm

Early Tuesday morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., circuit ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider the agency's mercury rule following the June decision ...
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Is Bankruptcy the Only Way Out for Arch Coal?

Posted: November 9, 2015 at 12:45 pm

It is no secret that being in the coal business is now about as bad as would have been to be a coal miner in years past. The coal mining ...
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Leveraged Loan Default Rates Could Reach 2% in 2015

Posted: September 30, 2015 at 2:10 pm

In the month of August, the institutional leveraged loan market experienced five defaults, the most since March of 2014. As bad as that is, it could get worse. According to ...
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What Was the Attraction in Coal Stocks on Thursday?

Posted: September 25, 2015 at 12:15 pm

Judging by the heavy action and soaring stock prices at two coal miners on Thursday, an observer may be forgiven for thinking that all the natural gas in the U.S. ...
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Coal Miners Take Another Beating on Friday

Posted: September 4, 2015 at 11:40 am

Coal-mining stocks have dropped from about 1% to 10% on Friday, with Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) falling the most. No news on fundamentals in the coal business explain the ...
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Patriot Coal Bankruptcy Auction Set

Posted: August 31, 2015 at 1:15 pm

When Patriot Coal filed for bankruptcy in May of this year, it became the first of the U.S. coal companies to succumb to the tumbling price of coal. The company ...
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Arch Coal Soars as Debt Swap Offer Delayed Again

Posted: August 31, 2015 at 11:35 am

To say that shares of Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) have been volatile Monday morning is not an overstatement. Shares opened at $7.54, down more than 8% from Friday’s closing ...
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Leveraged Loan Default Rate Soars on Coal Miner Bankruptcies

Posted: August 28, 2015 at 1:05 pm

Since the beginning of March, 77% of leveraged loan default volume has come from metals/mining and energy companies. While the institutional rate for the trailing 12 months was 1.4% at ...
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Short-Covering, Possible Debt Swap Send Peabody Stock Soaring

Posted: August 27, 2015 at 12:20 pm

The number of shares of Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) sold short is more than double what it was a year ago. The number of shares short hit a 12-month ...
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Arch Coal: A New Momentum Stock?

Posted: August 21, 2015 at 12:55 pm

In the past two-and-a-half trading sessions, shares of Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) have risen nearly 90%, not including the effect of a one-for-10 reverse stock split that occurred after ...
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Is Arch Coal Really Back?

Posted: August 19, 2015 at 1:25 pm

When investors see a rise of 40% or more in a stock, they start to wonder what is happening. When they see a rise by that much in a coal ...
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Energy, Mining Companies Lead Debt Default Rates Higher

Posted: August 14, 2015 at 11:10 am

The impact of low commodity prices has taken a steep toll on energy producers, particularly in the oil and coal businesses. According to Fitch Ratings, the energy industry’s default rate ...
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