While copper concentrate shipments to China began earlier this month from Rio Tinto plc (ADR) (NYSE:RIO)'s huge Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, as the miner and the region's ...
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July 31 - News
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you.
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July 29 - News
Softening demand for commodities, on the back of China's slowing economy, has hurt the profitability of all the major mining companies, creating a sentiment-fueled selloff of ...
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July 17 - News
The official unofficial beginning of earnings season has long been considered the report from Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA), with the news setting the early tone for the broader market...
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July 11 - News
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July 10 - News
Its always fun to to learn a little Latin, a language that has played a huge part in shaping the modern English we speak today.
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July 10 - News
With ten-year Treasury rates spiking fast and stock prices moving down, it's remarkable to see how resilient commodity prices have been during the past few weeks.
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July 5 - News
The recent collapse of stock prices in the mining sector presents investors who act now with an opportunity to collect solid double-digit annual gains for years to come.
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July 3 - News
Just like other metals, copper is under pressure this year, down 14%.
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July 2 - News
Several major sporting events, including the next FIFA World Cup and Olympics, will be soon kick-off in Brazil.
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June 27 - News
It’s a well known fact that mining and metals industry has been bleeding severely, and investing in the sector is not advisable.
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June 27 - News
With the world’s largest iron ore miner Brazil’s Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE) now trading at lows not seen since 2007, many investors are convinced that now is the time to invest...
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June 19 - News
According to Wikipedia, Resource Nationalism (RN) is "the tendency of people and governments to assert control over natural resources located on their territory." This definition...
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June 18 - News
Watching the mining companies race downhill of late may be terrific preparation for taking in the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia.
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June 18 - News
There has been a lot of bad press about Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE) in the last couple of weeks.
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June 18 - News
As the interest rates go up in the U.S., emerging markets (EM) currencies, stocks and bonds declined sharply.
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June 17 - News
The mining industry can be a risky place to invest, since it is prone to great volatility and tremendous boom and bust cycles.
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June 14 - News
This article is about investing in Brazilian companies. But I’m not going to tell you how wonderful and rosy its growth prospects are, when they are not.
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June 13 - News
Around two years ago, Brazil declared its intention to wean itself off of fertilizer imports by 2020.
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June 12 - News
Copper is one of the metals that suffered the least this year. Wide industrial implications of copper make it a more price-stable metal than others.
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June 10 - News
Low labor and raw material costs provide Brazil’s foundries and metal producers with an advantage over worldwide competitors.
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June 10 - News
If you're on the hunt for income in this low-yield environment, I have just the industry for you.
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June 10 - News
On Friday, May 31st, iron ore prices reached a 7-month low of about $111 per metric tonne.
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June 3 - News
Is Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE) a healthy stock for your portfolio? Prominent investors are becoming less hopeful.
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May 29 - News
Due to the falling demand (and prices) of most industrial commodities over the last year, BHP Billiton Limited (ADR) (NYSE:BHP) has been beaten down severely.
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May 29 - News
With global growth slowing further in April, and the market increasingly recognizing that the Chinese slowdown is structural, many commodity prices will probably remain under ...
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May 20 - News
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF) is up nearly 20% over the last week on hopes that various cost cutting plans and hopes that China's importing more iron ore will help...
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May 17 - News
Following earnings results that showed a smaller-than-expected loss in the first quarter, rare-earth minerals miner Molycorp Inc (NYSE:MCP) surged 31% high on Friday as investors...
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May 12 - News
On Friday, Silver Wheaton Corp. (USA) (NYSE:SLW) will release its latest quarterly results.
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May 8 - News
At the start of my Real Money Portfolio, I want to address a few key points.
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May 2 - News
Gold is plunging and cooper entered a bear market in recent days; the fact that Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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May 1 - News
Get out and stay out! You could almost hear the door being slammed on Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE) after it reached an agreement with Argentina's government over closing down its...
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May 1 - News
Underscoring the turmoil ripping through the world's biggest gold miner in the wake of a court order suspending its Chilean Pascua-Lama project, Barrick Gold Corporation (USA...
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April 28 - News
The world's largest gold miner is trying to sell three of its Australian mines that produced some 452,000 ounces of gold last year and had combined reserves of almost 2.6 million...
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April 24 - News
For a long time, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) was synonymous with stability, growth and durability.
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April 23 - News
According to most market participants, hedge funds are assumed to be slow, outdated financial vehicles of yesteryear.
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April 22 - News
On Wednesday, Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 22 - News
Unemployment is still a major issue. The Fed has pointed at the unemployment rate as a key number that influences their policies.
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April 18 - News
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF) recently closed around its 52-week low of about $18, its 12-month high is $71.
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April 18 - News
Are you tired of listening to all the billionaires who made their fortune taking enormous gambles tell you that you are too dumb to accomplish what they did? Instead, you better...
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April 16 - News
Could the timing be any worse? Just as Rio Tinto plc (ADR) (NYSE:RIO) and BHP Billiton Limited (ADR) (NYSE:BHP) are shedding assets to focus more intently on their iron ore business...
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April 7 - News
If you'd ask most shareholders, hedge funds are assumed to be worthless, old investment vehicles of yesteryear.
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March 21 - Hedge Funds
Earnings season is winding down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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March 19 - News
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March 14 - News
Metals and mining companies have had a tough go of it in recent times. Year to date as of March 8, the industry has fallen 5.98% while the S&P 500 has risen 8.28%.
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March 11 - News
For a company that launched into financial superstardom with an initial portfolio of mine production by-product streams that targeted silver exclusively, Silver Wheaton Corp.
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February 25 - News
Emerging countries including India, China and Brazil are expected to grow at a rapid pace.
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February 15 - News
I am very excited about the prospects for iron ore miners. Iron ore prices in China beat expectations, hitting $153/metric ton on Jan.
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February 14 - News
A few years ago Brazil – a member of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) – was the hottest emerging market on the planet. Brazil’s stock market returned a remarkable...
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February 12 - News
