Coal & Consumable Fuels

Tuesday witnessed a tepid session in which stocks struggled for directions and the Dow average failed to cross the 11,000 mark for a second day.  The blue-chip average has not been able to cross that psychologically important mark in the last 18 months. Minutes from the last Fed meeting revealed...

Equity markets are likely to open lower today as concerns over Greece’s debt crisis mount. S&P 500 futures were down 4.6 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures and the Nasdaq 100 futures were down 31 points and 5.75 points, respectively. Knight Equity Markets’ managing director...

Some of the shares that made impressive moves in the US market yesterday are: Gainers China Information Security Technology Inc (NASDAQ: CPBY) soared 31.6% after it announced that it would be supplying to State Grid Corporation of China. Virage Logic Corp (NASDAQ: VIRL) climbed 14.4% after the...

Bloomberg reports that Peabody Energy Corp.’s (NYSE: BTU) tussle with Noble Group Ltd. (ADR) (PINK: NOBGY) for Australian coal mines to supply China, where imports have gone up by three times last year, continues. The U.S.’s biggest coal company has now sweetened its offer for Macarthur Coal Ltd....

I'm keeping a handful of smaller Chinese coal producers on my radar as potential investments; due to their size (300M and 175M market caps) I have not jumped into either but the Massey accident seems to have triggered the algorithms to jump into L&L Energy (LLEN) and Puda Coal (PUDA).  (volume...

The Fed is releasing the minutes from its March meeting later this afternoon at 2 o’clock Eastern.  Investors will then pour over the language used to describe the economy and, from this, determine whether the Fed plans to adjust interest rates in the future.  As always when it comes to Bernake’s...

The Fed is releasing the minutes from its March meeting later this afternoon at 2 o’clock Eastern.  Investors will then pour over the language used to describe the economy and, from this, determine whether the Fed plans to adjust interest rates in the future.  As always when it comes to Bernake’s...

Shares of Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) are down by almost 10% in early trading. Shares of the company have fallen a day after an explosion in one of its coal mines in West Virginia, which killed 25 people. Massey Energy Company shares were down 9.64% to $49.40 at 10.07 a.m. in New York. The...

Coal producer, Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE), is falling sharply this morning after there was an explosion at their West Virginia mine that killed 25 people. The stock is trading off by 9.51% to $49.49 and is sitting on the 50-day moving average. Options volume has picked up slightly and the April $50...

• Massey Energy (NYSE:MEE) shares continued lower this morning in pre-market trade, off nearly 6%, following yesterday's mining disaster in which at least 25 West Virginia miners were killed. However, Jefferies (NYSE:JEF) reiterated its "buy" rating on the shares • Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced...

Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the biggest U.S. coal producer, has raised its bid for Macarthur Energy, the Australian coal producer, to $3.27 billion after Macarthur spurned Peabody's initial $3 billion offer. Peabody's offer is still conditional on Macarthur not acquiring Gloucester Coal and Peabody...

Below are the top 5 basic materials stocks in terms of return on equity. The return on equity for Williams Partners LP (NYSE: WPZ) is 72.78%. WPZ’s quarterly earnings are 247.40% y/y. The return on equity for Core Laboratories NV (NYSE: CLB) is 48.81%. Howard Weil initiated coverage of CLB with a “...