Today’s commodities news leads off with a quick look at how fertilizer stocks are doing. There’s also some bad news out of Europe on malting barley, which could be equally bad news for beer...
Warmer and drier weather in the US Midwest is raising concerns about the corn and soybean crops. If such weather continues, it could reduce the harvest and drive crop prices up. Corn prices fell to...
These are this morning’s top pre-market day trader alert stocks.  We have more color and more detail on price and volume analysis linked through to each at VSInvestor.com: Smith & Wesson...
The US Department of Agriculture this morning released its January World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, or WASDE, which projects world supply and demand for food products like wheat, corn,...
The Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) just set the tone for a positive reception for the potash and fertilizer market stocks. The company was the first real earnings report after the start of 2011.  Mosaic’s...
The Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) is finally about to be free from its shackles.  We are just about to get past the long-awaited spin-off of this whopping 100 million shares that have been effectively held...
Fertilizer stocks just can’t catch a break.  If it isn’t an official earnings warning to watch out for or the stock market and economic growth concerns, then it government data.  New...
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT) did last night what most traders already feared was coming. The Canadian potash supply giant said that weak demand for its products and lower...
The message delivered today by earnings reports from Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), and CNH Global N.V. (NYSE: CNH) is that as long as the world’s...
Time now for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Today’s news is dominated by two reports from the US Department of Agriculture. One provides the USDA’s latest figures on grain stocks,...
When BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) made its $38.6 billion offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT), the size of the deal put a spotlight on the fertilizer makers, especially those that...
These are ten of the top impact research calls with upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street early this Friday morning: Amgen (AMGN) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. ConocoPhillips (COP) Raised to...
When BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) made its $38.6 billion offer to buy Canada’s Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, China’s Sinochem Group considered making a rival offer for the Canadian fertilizer...
These are this Friday’s top research calls seen in upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street analysts: Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) Cut to Underperform from Market Perform at FBR....