Diversified Chemicals

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Leah Schnurr, Reuters Euro zone worries pressure Wall St NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks dipped on Monday with investors taking profits and looking for further action from European officials to prevent a debt crisis from spreading. Euro zone finance ministers were set to meet amid pressure to increase...

Shares of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) are higher on the session by 0.08%, currently trading at $33.26. The stock has been moving sharply higher over the past three months, jumping off of the $22.50 level. One trader is betting that shares will make a large move one way or the other over...

Wall Street refused to succumb to fears sparked by November's dreary jobs report on Friday as a sinking U.S. dollar offset the economic gloom. Today's Markets As of 2:36 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 14.19 points, or 0.12%, to 11348.37, the Standard & Poor's 500 declined 1.22...

Recently, 3M Company (MMM) completed the acquisition of Cogent Inc., after the transaction was given consent by Cogent's stockholders at a meeting held on December 1, 2010. Cogent shares were valued at $10.50 per share. The transaction was initially announced on August 30, 2010 and as per...

Recently, 3M Company (MMM) completed the acquisition of Cogent Inc., after the transaction was given consent by Cogent's stockholders at a meeting held on December 1, 2010. Cogent shares were valued at $10.50 per share. The transaction was initially announced on August 30, 2010 and as per...

Effective Jan. 1, 2011, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Titanium Technologies announces a net price increase of 150 Euros per metric tonne, or as permitted by contract, for all DuPont Ti-Pure titanium dioxide grades sold in the Euro markets of Western and Central Europe and the North African region. Effective...

Goldman Sachs is raising its 12-month price target on Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) by $2 to $36. This is based Goldman Sachs' SOTP analysis. Dow currently trades at $33.24.

Citigroup has upgraded E. I. de Pont de Nemours & Company (NYSE: DD) from Hold to Buy.

The Board of Directors of Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE: EMN) has increased the quarterly cash dividend by 7 percent to $0.47 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable January 3, 2011, to stockholders of record as of December 13, 2010.

CNBC Fast Money's Joe Terranova said on the show that he likes biotechnology names. Karen Finerman is a buyer of CareFusion Corporation (NYSE: CFN) on Thursday. CareFusion Corporation (CFN) gained 3.06% today. Guy Adami believes that Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRN) is a buy. Trinity...

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) is moving up higher this afternoon, gaining more than 4% on heavy volume. The stock has traded more than 7.2 million shares, and the average daily volume for the name is just over 4 million shares. At last check, shares of HUN were up 68 cents to $15.30, a gain of 4...

Lingering worries about Europe's ability to contain a credit crisis, even as finance ministers of the European Union designed an $89 billion lifeline for Ireland, continued to weigh on global markets Monday. In the United States, markets reflected those worries as the Dow average nosedived below...

Lingering worries about Europe's ability to contain a credit crisis, even as finance ministers of the European Union designed an $89 billion lifeline for Ireland, continued to weigh on global markets Monday. In the United States, markets reflected those worries as the Dow average nosedived below...

Cusick's Corner Finance took the lead into the After Hours and the market followed. With Finance showing leadership and the cold weather hitting, we saw the Energy sector, XLE get a boost at the end of the day -- it's another offensive sector that will need to continue its upswing if the bulls...