Time to get ready for another chase scene in the fertilizer business. Privately held agricultural giant Cargill Inc. plans to sell its 64% stake in Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) for about $24.3 billion. The...
Source: thinkstockAnalysts at Credit Suisse today have initiated coverage on what they call the North American Agricultural Sciences sector with a look a seven fertilizer makers. Some of the...
Motorola’s (MOT) shares are up almost 10% since late last month. RBS recently upgraded the shares due to a strengthening handset market and improved products, according to Barron’s. Cowen...
The all-cash $130.00 share, $38.6 billion offer from BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) has brought the agriculture sector to the forefront in a big way. The...
The share of children living in a single mother household has nearly doubled over the past 50 years. Single mothers in America today face unique challenges balancing the responsibilities of work and...
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) has just reported its quarterly earnings report.  The agriculture and seed giant has posted $1.45 EPS on $3.588 Billion in total sales.  First Call had estimates at...
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) has decided to start paying out a dividend to shareholders.  The company’s board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share on the common...
Shares of Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) are surging pre-market after CNBC’s David Faber broke some news that is just trickling out across the web.  Embattled and disliked CEO Ed Zander is out...
Motorola (MOT) reported sales of $9.65 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007. That is down from $11.8 million in revenue in the quarter a year ago. Net earnings in the fourth quarter of 2007 were...
Ed Zander and the management at Motorola (MOT) did not get much of a bounce in their stock when they fired 4,000 people. The stock closed down .5% today at $18.19. It is not the kind of buying frenzy...
We won’t bother telling you about the homebuilder merger this morning, because we already covered it once.  But in a down and out sector, you will see that traders are looking to see if there...
An anecdotal two-fer in Sunday's New York Times.
Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE: MTH) priced offering of 4 million common shares at $20.50 per share after market close yesterday. The proceeds to the homebuilder from the $82 million offering will...
It was worse for Motorola (MOT) in Q2 than even most pessimists believed. The company sold only about 35 million handsets, down from 45 million in Q1 and almost 52 million in the quarter a year ago....
The crowd at CIBC World Markets believes that Samsung could pass Motorola (MOT) as the world’s second largest handset manufacturer behind Nokia (NOK). The bank thinks MOT’s market share...