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Stocks Struggle to Find Direction 02-14-2011
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 7:27pm | 739Cusick's Corner Stocks struggled to find direction on this slow news day. Trading volumes on the NYSE were very low, plus there was little action in the option pits too. Retail Sales are due out pre-market tomorrow -- watch the Retailers, XRT, want to see if this weather is cooling down store...
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Valentine's KISS 02-14-2011
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 3:58pm | 814Cusick's Corner KISS: Keep It Simple – it's low volume on this grind to the upside, the market is overbought and commercial traders are pulling off their hedges (specifically in the NAZ and DOW futures), all going to put your discipline and your plan to test. Now those of you who have been winging...
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Freeport-McMoran Adds 4% (FCX)
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 11:39am | 82Shares of miner Freeport-McMoran (NYSE: FCX) are surging on Monday. The stock has gained more than 4.5% and is trading at $56.00, near its highs for the day. Volume is on the heavy side with more than 6 million FCX shares already trading hands during the session. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold...
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Top Performing Industries For February 14 (NFLX, MU, FCX, MVG)
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 11:11am | 179At 10:05 am, the Dow fell 0.20% to 12,248.44, the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index moved down 0.03% to 1,328.76 and the NASDAQ composite index rose 0.15% to 2,813.79. The industries that are supporting the market today are: Music & Video Stores: This industry jumped 2.89% by 10:05 am....
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Asia Rallies Overnight. Commodity Stocks In Play
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 10:32am | 322Last night the Asian markets all surged sharply higher. The Japanese Nikkei 225 Index closed higher by 1.13%. The Hong Kong markets surged higher by 1.28%, as the Hang Seng Index rallied higher 292.00 points. Then the highly followed Shanghai Index, which represents the main land Chinese market,...
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Compass Minerals Raises Dividend by 15% to $0.45
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 10:12am | 48Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) announced today that its board of directors has increased the company's quarterly dividend by 15 percent to $0.45 per share effective with its dividend payable March 15, 2011, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 1, 2011.
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Aluminum ETF Could Make Debut Soon
Sunday, February 13, 2011 - 10:07pm | 233Russian aluminum giant United Company RUSAL, the world's largest producer of the industrial metal, said that an exchange traded fund backed by physical aluminum could make its debut in a matter of weeks. There are currently no ETFs available on the market that are backed by physical aluminum. "...
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UPDATE: J.P. Morgan Color On CMP
Friday, February 11, 2011 - 11:32am | 196J.P. Morgan, which raised its PT on shares of Compass Minerals International (NYSE: CMP), has provided some color on the company. “If Compass Minerals were to meet its targets, its earnings would probably be much higher than our current estimates,” J.P. Morgan writes. “Compass indicated that its...
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JP Morgan Raises PT On Compass Minerals To $94
Friday, February 11, 2011 - 9:22am | 28JP Morgan has raised the price target on Compass Minerals International (NYSE: CMP) from $74 to $94 and maintains its Neutral rating.
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Likes JDS Uniphase (AA, INTC, LLNW, JDSU, FFIV, FCX)
Friday, February 11, 2011 - 4:54am | 167On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Alcoa (NYSE: AA) “could be the biggest stock in the Dow for 2011." Cramer believes that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is “undervalued, but I cannot tell you to own it up here. It's gotten too hard to own." He said that Limelight Networks...
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Some High-Flying Stocks To Trade
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 1:21pm | 101Looking through some low-dollar stocks this morning, I found three in particular that looked prime for the trade. I'm going to warn you though, these stocks move fast and furious, so you want to pay close attention to them, and use tight stop-losses. LONG: China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources (...
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Titanium Metals Trading Higher Today (TIE)
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 11:48am | 38Titanium Metals (NYSE: TIE) is trading higher today. At last check, shares of TIE were trading at $19.60, up 3.27% from Wednesday's close. M&A rumors are circulating today on TIE shares.
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Active Screen - CANSLIM: Top 8 for February 10th
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 10:40am | 1116Our current list of eight stocks was unchanged from last week. The eight in descending order by Market Cap are: Free McMoran (FCX), Netflix (NFLX), Apple (AAPL), Baidu (BIDU), Research in Motion (RIMM), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Southwestern Energy (SWN), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)....
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Rio Tinto Reports Record Profit, Plans $5B Buyback
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 2:43am | 186Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO), the world's second-largest iron ore producer, said its second-half 2010 profit, excluding one-time items, more than doubled to $8.22 billion from $3.73 billion a year earlier. Analysts were forecasting a profit of $8.29 billion. Robust demand for copper, coal and iron ore by...
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Fast Money Pops & Drops, February 9th (WFC, NOK, IR, TCK, BWLD)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 8:43pm | 343Karen Finerman said on CNBC's Fast Money Pops & Drops that you should not jump in Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). She added that it is never good to see the CFO leaving, but she believes that this is not related to anything financial. Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) fell 2.84% today, and...