Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (AMEX: AVL) is getting hit pretty hard this morning after shares were hit hard last night. The emerging rare earth materials players filed to sell some 7 million…
Jon C. Ogg At the end of 2010, US ETFs held assets of $1.005 trillion. By the end of 2015 that number will more than double to $2.091 trillion. That’s a compound annual growth rate…
China’s Ministry of Commerce has released a statement saying that the government has raised export quotas for rare earth elements to over 30,000 metric tons for 2011, virtually identical with shipments of…
Jon C. Ogg The announcement that Japanese scientists have found high concentrations of rare earth minerals on the Pacific Ocean sea bed could be far less than meets the eye. The report estimates that the…
Jon C. Ogg A Rare earth metals exchange? In China? Reports were out last night that Baotou Steel Rare Earth has won has won an approval from the local government to actually start an exchange…
Jon C. Ogg Today’s commodities news centers on the more than -4% drop in WTI crude oil prices which has led to a broad sell-off in most other commodities. This was a day where if…
Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is about as frequently referred to a bubble-stock as you can imagine. So what happens when highly inflated stocks miss on earnings estimates? Investors sold shares hard today…
Jon C. Ogg It was just on April 13 that we noted how rare earths had become the new crack and meth for Wall Street and Main Street investors and speculators. Actually, all investors at…
Jon C. Ogg Commodities news today features another processing plant acquisition, the latest projections on demand for steel, and more increases in the price of wheat. Gold and silver continue to make new highs today,…
Rare earth materials, rare earth oxides, rare earth elements… Whatever they are called by whichever outlet is writing about them that day, these have become the trading stocks where fortunes have been made. The…
Jon C. Ogg Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. We have cotton issues, oil spikes, issues around rare earth elements, and precious metals on the docket. Even…
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is one of the more odd merger reaction stock cases on the surface. Usually, acquirers see their shares drop when they make an acquisition. While they are buying…
Jon C. Ogg Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is almost surprisingly trading higher after its earnings report. The surprise is that shares were already up 300% from last year’s IPO and it already even had a…
Jon C. Ogg Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is finally bringing this secondary offering of common stock for holders and is selling some mandatory convertible preferred shares. The terms of the deal may be surprising to…
Jon C. Ogg Using charts alone is something that may not make sense to most people. Still, thousands of investors make a living at just that. Fundamentals be damned! We do not subscribe to the…