Agricultural Products

EX-DIVIDEND • AMCOL International Corp. (NYSE: ACO). Amount $0.18 • Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM). Amount $0.14 • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE: ANW). Amount $0.01 • Chemed Corp. (NYSE: CHE). Amount $0.12 • Marriott International Inc. (NYSE: MAR). Amount $0.34 • Microsoft Corp...

AgFeed Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEED), a leading commercial hog producer, today announced its third quarter financial results for fiscal 2009. AgFeed Industries net income was $2.9 million versus $8.2 million same period year ago, while revenues declined to $45.12 million from $49.43 million last...

Gains in the emerging market stocks made it possible for Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bull 3x(ETF)(NYSE: EDC) to lead ETFs with an increase of 7.03%. E-TRACS UBS CMCI Silver Total Return(NYSE: USV) is also doing well today as prices of silver are trading up. USV is up 6.26% and trades around $25...

Here's the ETF Professor's ETF Watchlist for Tuesday November 3, 2009. Financials, financials, finacials. Always in play. let's roll with the ProShares Ultra Financials ETF (NYSE: UYG) and of course the UltraShort Financials ProShares (NYSE: SKF) from the bearish side. Also keep an eye the...

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch resumed coverage on Bunge (NYSE: BG) with a Neutral. B of A has a price target of $70 on Bunge. Bunge closed at $61.39 yesterday.

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We were stopped out of our Bunge (BG) short position on the 2nd go around this morning. The first short attempt we covered much of the position for a quick 5% gain (the cover executed last Friday) - this time around we tried to add some short exposure Tuesday, and made the position larger again by...

As we said in the weekend summary, we wanted to get some of our hedges back on once the market bounced to some degree; did not expect it to happen so soon but here we are. Overall game plan here is to get more balanced (we were as high as 4:1 long v short this morning - actually 5:1 considering...

Sometimes things just work out perfectly - the past 24 hours has been that case. Almost to the dime our short exposure of the S&P 500 index via SPY puts and a levered ETF (shorted TNA) paid off as expected - from S&P 1040 to 1020. This morning I covered all instruments (sold puts, covered...

Very difficult to find bad charts, but I had a limit short order for Bunge (BG) @ $63.20 sitting out there the past week and it hit this morning. About a 2.5% allocation. I'll set a stop loss in the low $65s (which would be a 3% loss if hit); don't have an exit goal right now - I am simply looking...

Speedus Corp. (NASDAQ: SPDE) is among the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged 145% to $7.94 on huge volume of 2.83 million shares as today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its new Signal X6(TM) device. Zargis also announced the delivery of...

AgFeed Industries (Nasdaq: FEED) entered into a two year Equity Credit Agreement with an institutional investor. With this from time to time, the company will sell shares of its common stock to the investor for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $50M. The shares would be sold to the investor at a...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Aug. 17, 2009) - Editors Note: A photo for this release will be available on the Canadian Press picture wire via Marketwire. With the opening of the new U.S. departures area at Montreal-Trudeau Airport scheduled for Wednesday, August 19, Aeroports de Montreal (ADM)...