Diversified Chemicals

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is a “great stock with great management. That's an up stock." Cramer believes that ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is the “cheapest oil company around. That's an up stock; it's going higher." For Chesapeake...

Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) has been awarded contracts to supply its Therminol VP-1 synthetic heat transfer fluid for two new solar power plants in Spain. The projects are each 50 MW solar power plants with thermal storage located in Extremadura, Spain.

3M Company (NYSE: MMM) unveils its next round of earnings this Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Tuesday's second quarter earnings announcement. Earnings and Revenue: Wall Street expects a positive EPS reading of $1.60 per share and revenues of $7.6...

A new partnership could help to bring bio-plastics to medicine cabinet near you. Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) and Japan's Mitsui have formed a new Brazilian joint venture in order to turn sugar cane into ethanol and plastic. The pair plan on creating the world's largest integrated facility for...

Monness, Crespi, & Hardt has upgraded Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) from Neutral to Buy.

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan announced today the formation of a new joint venture and execution of a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at providing innovative and sustainable product solutions to the global high-performance flexible packaging,...

It's time to gear up for PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) earnings! Keep your head in the game: The company releases its next round of earnings this Thursday, July 21, 2011. Want to get caught up before Thursday's earnings release? We've got just what you need. Here is your everything-that-matters...

Effective Sept. 1, 2011, DuPont Titanium Technologies (NYSE: DD) announces a net price increase of $500 per metric ton for all DuPont™ Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide coatings grades and a net price increase of $700 per metric ton for all DuPont™ Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide plastic and paper grades sold in...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on Ashland (NYSE: ASH), maintaining Neutral. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, "We rate ASH shares Neutral. We view the stock as reasonably valued at the current price. The shares currently trade at 6.1x pro forma 2012E EV/EBITDA. We establish our...

Jefferies expects companies in the Chemicals sector to report mostly in line results for Q2, according to its report previewing quarterly results in the industry. In the report, Jefferies states, “Q2 (June) earnings are likely to be roughly in line with expectations, but we expect outlooks to...

Cusick's Corner The reversal in the market pulled off all gains we saw in the Midday -- told you it's an interesting week. This also highlights that tightening risk is very important going into the end of this week. I am not surprised that there was a flight for safety or aversion to adding risk...

Below are the top general building materials stocks on the NYSE in terms of operating margin. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at LSB Industries Inc (NYSE: LXU) is 13.04%. LXU's PEG ratio is 1.27. The trailing-twelve-month operating margin at Valspar Corporation (The) (NYSE: VAL) is 11....

The moving averages track the previous price action in a stock. In this case, the 200-day moving average compiles the average share price of the last 200 trading days. Perspective: Price above the average is perceived as positive while price below the average is negative. Currently, The Dow...

Dahlman Rose is out with its report today on Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), maintaining Hold. In a note to clients, Dahlman Rose writes, "We have lowered our 2Q EPS and EBITDA estimate to $0.74 (prior $0.87) and $2.2 billion (prior $2.4 billion) to reflect lower volumes and near term margin compression...

The S&P 500 lost 9.4 points, or 0.7%, in Friday's trading session, as a weaker-than-expected jobs report put an end to the recent market rally. The SPX is now 26.78 points lower than its 52-week high of 1370.58, which was set on May 2nd. The Sector breakdown for Friday's session is as follows...