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Play Brazil ETF: An Ideal Short-Term Play
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 3:41pm | 281Alright, let's clarify right away. That title means the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (NYSE: EWZ) is definitely worth watching over the next couple of days. Brazil ETFs have not been much fun to be involved with this year, but EWZ, the most popular of the lot, has started to show signs of life...
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Jim Cramer Likes Freeport (FCX)
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 3:41pm | 199Jim Cramer said that Freeport McMoran (NYSE: FCX) is a buy here, as copper is not going to plummet. He likes the exposure that the company has to gold, which is making all-time highs here. Since the company split its shares, it's been a "dog." Cramer said that it could be a buy right here. The...
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Teck Announces Odd Lot Selling Program
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 1:16pm | 55Teck Resources Limited (NYSE: TCK) announced today an odd lot selling program which enables registered and beneficial shareholders who own 99 or fewer Class A Common Shares and/or Class B Subordinate Voting Shares of Teck as of February 23, 2011, to sell their Shares without incurring any brokerage...
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Calls Purchased on Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK)
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 11:43am | 131Shares of Northern Dynasty Minerals (NYSE: NAK) are higher on the session by 17.55%, currently trading at $20.68. The stock had been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name...
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Commodity Stocks Rebound Early. Will It Last?
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 11:06am | 246This morning some of the leading commodity stocks are trading higher. The move higher in the commodity stock complex comes as the U.S. Dollar Index trades lower by 0.35 cents to $77.05. The Shanghai Index also rallied higher last night by 0.50 percent and this usually helps to lift commodity stocks...
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Active Screen - CANSLIM: Top 8 for February 17th
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 9:50am | 1526This week saw one change to the eight stocks from last week. This week's list, ranked by Market Cap: Apple (AAPL), Barrick Gold (ABX), Free McMoran (FCX), Baidu (BIDU), Research in Motion (RIMM), Cognizant Technlogy (CTSH), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), and Southwestern Energy (SWN). So Netflix (NFLX...
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Brush Engineered Materials Reports Q4 EPS of $0.61 vs. $0.46
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 9:03am | 91Brush Engineered Materials Inc. (NYSE: BW) today reported stronger than expected results for the fourth quarter and the full-year 2010. Sales for the fourth quarter were a record $356.0 million and EPS was $0.61 per share, diluted. The fourth quarter performance thus, in turn, takes sales for the...
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Metals & Miners Catching Bids (FCX, BHP, MCP, SCCO)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 4:00pm | 85The metals, minerals, and miner sector has been catching a bid for the past hour or so, with a few names up over 1%, as the markets move back off their lows. Names like Freeport McMoran (NYSE: FCX), Molycorp (NYSE: MCP), BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) and Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) are all higher today.
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Playing The Plunge In Copper (JJC, FCX)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 10:30am | 84Dr. Copper has been getting killed recently, leading some to speculate that the run in risky assets is over. If you believe this theory, going short the copper ETF (NYSE: JJC) or Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) could potentially be profitable short-term trades. Freeport-McMoRan...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Advises Investors To Buy Apache (BMY, AAPL, APA, IBN, FCX, BHP)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:58am | 184On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) is “not doing anything.” He added, “They don't have a good pipeline. In the end there's little growth." For Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), he said, "Expect that you'll have to buy more. It could have...
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Stocks on the Move (TGB),(ELOS),(CPD),(GLUU)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 3:54pm | 36Stocks on the Move (TGB),(ELOS),(CPD),(GLUU)...
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BHP To Acquire $4.75B In Chesapeake Energy Assets
Monday, February 21, 2011 - 7:58pm | 287BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), the world's largest mining company, will pay $4.75 billion to acquire Fayetteville shale properties from Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), the second-largest U.S. natural gas producer. The acquisition comes just days after BHP CEO Marius Kloppers told an...
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BHP Billiton Just Can't Leave M&A Alone
Saturday, February 19, 2011 - 9:08pm | 224After saying earlier this week that it would leave large-scale mergers and acquisitions alone for a while to spend $80 billion to develop and expand its own mines and oil and gas fields, BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), the world's largest mining company, may go back on the hunt for deals within a year....
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Pre-Market Movers & News
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 10:18am | 286Last night, the People's Bank of China(Chinese central bank), raised its bank reserve requirements by 0.50 percent. This put pressure on the Shanghai Index which closed lower by 0.92 percent. Over the past week the highly followed Shanghai Index has been bouncing higher. As we should all know by...
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U.S. Steel (NYSE:X) Trading Strategies for Bulls and Bears
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 10:04am | 1866Investors may have a renewed interest in U.S. Steel (NYSE:X) Corp. this week after a Goldman Sachs analyst upgraded the stock. The covering analyst booted his overall rating to “buy” from “neutral,” lifted his earnings forecasts through 2013, and raised his 12-month price target by 23% to $75. In...