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Citigroup has raised the price target on Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) from $75 to $80 and maintains its Buy rating.

International Flavors & Fragrances (NYSE: IFF) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share on the common stock of the corporation, payable on July 6, 2011 to shareholders of record on June 22, 2011.

Shares of Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) are lower on the session by 1.23%, trading at $69.10. Overall put volume is now running at 11.84x the daily average, with 43% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,030 contracts have traded on the session so far. Albemarle Corporation is a...

Stepan (NYSE: SCL) Reports EPS of $1.63 vs. $1.83 Estimate

NL Industries Inc. (NYSE:NL)- a holding company is trading at a price of $15.99, a dramatic change of 12.29% from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market capitalization (total value of a company in the stock market) of approximately 48.66M. China Shengda Packaging Group Inc...

Gainers  1) NL Industries, Inc. (NL)- a holding company engaged in the component products (security products, furniture components and performance marine components), is trading at a price of $15.99, a dramatic change of 12.29% from its previous day's close. Currently, the company has a Market...

In a recent report published by J.P. Morgan, has decreased the tax rate from 36% to 32% on Ferro Crop (NYSE: FOE) and increased its 2012 EPS estimate from $1.45 to $1.50. According to this report, “Ferro lowered its operating income projections for 2011 by about $10M and leftunchanged its EPS...

J.P. Morgan reiterated its Overweight rating on Minerals Technologies (NYSE: MTX) and left its target price unchanged at $74 in a research report published today. In the report, J.P. Morgan also changed its earnings per share estimates. For this year, J.P. Morgan has lowered its estimate from $3....

Jefferies has upgraded its rating from Hold to Buy and raised its price target from $8.25 to $11 on Omnova Solutions (NYSE: OMN). In its report, Jefferies writes, “Structural improvements at OMNOVA Solutions suggest investors can obtain a favorable risk/reward coupled with a potential significant...

Jefferies & Company has upgraded OMNOVA (NYSE: OMN) from Hold to Buy and has raised the price target from $8.25 to $8.50.

Ford (NYSE:F)- Ford revenue increased 17% from last year to $33.1 billion and reduced its debt by $2.5 billion. The result showed an increase of $466 million over the first quarter of 2010, and is the best first quarter earnings since 1998. Competitors-  General Motors Company (GM), Toyota Motor...

Below are the top cleaning products stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of PEG ratio Zep Inc (NYSE: ZEP) has a PEG ratio of 0.56. ZEP's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $618.69 million. Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) has a PEG ratio of 0.74. SCL's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 20.39%. Ecolab...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) has “sold off, but nothing in their conference call has made me change my mind. They're ready to head higher again." He advises investors “not to sell Goodrich (NYSE: GR).” He added, “This is...

Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today that it has developed a proprietary technology for lithium extraction from brine. This newly developed technology will allow the company to recover lithium that is present in the brines at its Magnolia, Arkansas bromine facility and utilize it to...

Warren Buffett from Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will comment on David Sokol's questionable trading of Lubrizol (NYSE: LZ) shares prior to his bringing up the company for an acquisition. Because Buffett wants all shareholders to hear his comments at...