Recently, Barclays held The Chemical ROC Stars Conference. The purpose of the conference was to get a general feeling of where the chemical sector was heading. Different themes were identified from different...... (read more)

With a market that seems to hit new highs every day, it's getting tougher to find a good business trading at a fair price. One stock that i'm starting to look at is E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE...... (read more)

Massive new supplies of natural gas discovered in the U.S. have caused the domestic price to fall as much as 70% below the price paid in other countries. While these low prices have not been favorable...... (read more)

Whenever America debates energy policies, there's normally some heated rhetoric about one industry getting treated better than the other. Several fossil-fuel advocates are crying foul at the Obama administration...... (read more)

Over the past decade the stock of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) is up by just 10%. That's it, that's not on an annualized basis, but 10 years ago today the stock sat just 10% below today's price...... (read more)

If you want to be green, you'll find there are plenty of GMO-free foods to choose from for your refrigerator, but when it comes to avoiding Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON)'s  drive to monopolize the world...... (read more)

Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON) has chalked up another one in the win column as it continues to wage its legal battle to protect its intellectual property rights. This time, the company emerged victorious...... (read more)

Investments that defy logic are more common than you'd think. Even during periods of modest growth of gross domestic product, indices and investment strategies based on basic materials would seem to benefit...... (read more)

Since the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) hit an all-time record high on Friday on the heels of a better-than-expected jobs report, there's no shortage of optimists. With the symbol...... (read more)