Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals

Overview: A classic EU sovereign debt/banking crisis fear inspired risk aversion day, slamming risk assets, especially the EUR. Sparked by a WSJ report that July bank stress tests understated PIIGS bond exposure. This is old new, but comes at a sensitive time as PIIGS seek to sell $80 bln in bonds...

Brazil's Vale (NYSE: VALE), Latin America's second-largest company by market value, is looking to expand its fertilizer business throught the creation of a new company, Vale Fertilizantes. The company has earmarked $12 billion to be spent on new projects and acquisitions in fertilizers in the next...

Courageous Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (pictured above, frequently featured on Carpe Diem), whose regular posts on her blog Generation Y "offer punchy accounts of the day-to-day environment" in Cuba, can add two new awards to the many she has previously received: 1. The International Press...

Overview: Risk appetite continuing thus far Monday across the range of risk assets, only oil lower but stocks, commodities, risk fx higher. NB: US markets closed, beware BoJ, SNB intervention attempts as low liquidity would make it relatively easy for them get crowded longs running for the exits to...

September 3, 2010 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a leader in sector research tools for investor’s reports on agriculture stocks news and trading as the global food crisis grows. Climate change, droughts, floods, water management issues, rising populations have resulted in food prices rising globally and...

Shares of Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) have been ticking higher throughout the trading day. Currently, the stock is up 1.26% to $147.79. Potash (POT) is being pursued by BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) which made an unsolicited $130 per share buyout offer, which was summarily dismissed by POT's board as "...

Sept 2, 2010 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a leader in sector research for independent investors reports on Agriculture stocks trading for Sept 2, 2010. Sector Snapshot – Agriculture Stocks Aquamer Medical Corp. (OTCBB: AQUM) (DBA/ Urban Agricultural Corp.) trading at $0.15 Agrium Inc. Common Stock (...

According to an article in The Australian, BHP Billiton's (NYSE: BHP) ambitions go beyond just its pursuit of Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT). The authors say that the Australian mining giant is interested in acquiring Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC). They wrote, "the aggressive and acquisitive chief...

(TheStreet) -- BHP Billiton's (NYSE: BHP) hostile pursuit of Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) has as many moving parts as a cuckoo clock. There are other clichés available for use. The BHP-Potash drama will likely have as many chapters as a Russian novel. Or as many twisting roads and hidden mews as the...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- BHP Billiton's (NYSE: BHP) hostile pursuit of Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) has as many moving parts as a cuckoo clock. There are other clichés available for use. The BHP-Potash drama will likely have as many chapters as a Russian novel. Or as many twisting roads and hidden mews...

New Oriental Energy & Chemical Corp. (NASDAQ: NOEC) reported today that on Friday, August 27, 2010, the Company outlined in a letter to the NASDAQ Stock Market the steps it is undertaking to achieve compliance with NASDAQ's minimum shareholder equity requirement of $2,500,000. This letter and...

Valley National Bancorp (NYSE: VLY) was downgraded by Morgan Stanley from “equal weight” to “underweight.” VLY’s shares closed at $13.03 yesterday. VLY’s earnings have fallen by 11.34% in the past 5 years. Morgan Stanley downgraded Hudson City Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ: HCBK) from "overweight" to "equal...

Cusick’s Corner The market has held up this Midday with the help from a better than expected 53.5 Consumer Confidence number, in spite of a strong push back to the 1040 level earlier in the session. We are waiting for the dissection of the latest Fed minutes, but after the action yesterday on...