Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals

Intrepid Potash, Inc. (NYSE: IPI) announced today preliminary sales and production results for the fourth quarter 2010 and provided an update on its capital investment program. On an unaudited basis, during the fourth quarter of 2010, Intrepid estimates that it produced between 215,000 and 225,000...

Cusick's Corner Here's the long and short of this market action -- profit taking. While this has not violated the larger uptrend, this is a distribution that we have not seen in over a month. Right now the market looks and feels a lot like last spring, where after a nice run up, consolidation,...

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), the world's largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a cash dividend of $0.25 per share. The dividend is payable Thursday, March 10, 2011, to shareholders of...

The markets are getting hit again, though beginning to move off their lows of the day. There has been a key move to the upside in United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X). While an analyst upgraded the price target also a massive support was hit at the lows today. These have triggered a solid...

The markets sold for the second straight day, dropping sharply as commodities took the brunt of the sell off. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) opened slightly lower on the day and then collapsed, much like yesterday. The SPY is trading at $127.40, -0.85 (-0.66%). The key to the drop today was...

As the market has been grinding higher over the past few months, we've heard many bears state that we are overbought and that we're due for a correction. The overbought part was likely true, but no correction was in sight on the back of QE2. I don't like being short when the printing presses...

Cusick's Corner Looks like the market is following that short-term trend I have been discussing in the last few Corners: challenge to the upside on good/great earnings, pulling back now at 1283 on SPX and on the way to mid month lows, then on to possibly consolidate for a period until longs can...

Investors' optimism helped markets close higher as stocks continued to gain momentum after an upbeat manufacturing report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The report helped energy and material share prices to go up despite weak Citigroup results and sliding prices of Apple (NASDAQ...

• Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported estimate-topping sales and earnings, also guiding higher for the fiscal second quarter. Fiscal first quarter earnings of $6.43 is well ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.46 on revenues of $26.7 billion ahead of Zacks Consensus Estimate for $20.731 billion • ...

Investors' optimism helped markets close higher as stocks continued to gain momentum after an upbeat manufacturing report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The report helped energy and material share prices to go up despite weak Citigroup results and sliding prices of Apple (NASDAQ...

• Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported estimate-topping sales and earnings, also guiding higher for the fiscal second quarter. Fiscal first quarter earnings of $6.43 is well ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.46 on revenues of $26.7 billion ahead of Zacks Consensus Estimate for $20.731 billion • ...

Since this website began in 2007, I've been questioning what the heck Cargill is doing with its stake in Mosaic (MOS).  The percent ownership was so large it did not allow for any realistic takeover bid for the company, but when owning 2/3rds why not go the full monty?  Last night, Cargill...

Shares of The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) are falling in the after-hours trade, currently off by 2.20%. Shares are currently trading at $83.20; they closed the regular session at $85.07. The companies jointly announced a transaction that would result in the distribution of Cargill's 64% stake in...

Cargill has reported that it is spinning off Mosaic (NYSE: MOS), making Mosaic both public and wholly owned. This will allow Cargill to remain private, while still having many of the benefits of a publicly traded company. Mosaic was formed in 2004 and was last trading at 83.47.

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) and Cargill today jointly announced a transaction that would result in the distribution of Cargill's 64 percent stake, or 286 million share position, in Mosaic to Cargill's shareholders and debt holders. The transaction will enable Cargill to accomplish several...