Editor's Note: Related Tickers: Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX), Goldcorp Inc. (USA) (NYSE:GG), Newmont Mining Corp (NYSE:NEM), Yamana Gold Inc.
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April 17 - News
Gold inspires strong emotions from investors both for and against investing in the precious metal, and yesterday's $130-per-ounce drop in the price of gold has reawakened the ...
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April 16 - News
Last Friday, gold suffered a rout of epic proportions, with its price falling below $1,450, and that continued into the start of this week, with the price of the yellow metal ...
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April 16 - News
Editor's Note: Related Tickers: Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX), SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSEARCA:GLD), Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX), Goldcorp Inc.
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April 15 - News
Housing is back. Housing starts have climbed to the highest levels in five years, inventory is low in many areas of the country, and continued low interest rates continue to...
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April 15 - News
I'm not much of a gold investor; however, as someone that likes a good value, the recent sell off in gold has caught my eye.
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April 15 - News
Sterlite Industries India Limited (ADR) (NYSE:SLT) was in 8 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012.
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April 14 - News
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are plenty of methods market participants can use to watch stocks. Two of the best are hedge fund and insider trading movement.
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April 5 - News
We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors for a variety of purposes, including development of investment strategies (we have found, for example, that the...
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April 4 - Hedge Funds
Copper mining stocks have been experiencing a sell-off of late as macroeconomic worries have spooked some investors.
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April 3 - News
Yes, Warren Buffett is head and shoulders above the rest in the investing community and has a few decent energy investments the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) portfolio.
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March 31 - News
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you.
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March 27 - News
In late December of 2012, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc (NYSE:FCX) announced that it would make two blockbuster purchases of fellow raw materials exploration and extraction...
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March 25 - News
The rich silver mines of Nevada withered as the Great Depression dragged on, leaving the desert state in dire straits as its people picked up and moved in search of elusive opportunities...
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March 19 - News
Billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper runs Appaloosa Management, the $15-billion multi-strategy hedge fund.
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March 18 - Hedge Funds
Studies show that stocks bought by insiders tend to slightly outperform the overall market (read more about studies on insider trading).
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March 18 - News
One thing's for sure: You'll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them.
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March 18 - News
Billionaire John Paulson manages one of the world's largest hedge funds, Paulson & Co., with around $29 billion in assets under management.
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March 15 - Hedge Funds
Just as we examine companies each week that may be rising past their fair value, we can also find companies potentially trading at bargain prices.
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March 14 - News
For those of you who've been following my One Person's Trash Is Another Person's Treasure portfolio, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that I love beaten-down, out-of-...
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March 11 - News
Metals and mining companies have had a tough go of it in recent times. Year to date as of March 8, the industry has fallen 5.98% while the S&P 500 has risen 8.28%.
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March 11 - News
After the oil bubble peaked in 2008, virtually all commodities took a nosedive. For example, crude oil prices retreated from over $144 per barrel to the $35 range in less than...
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March 8 - News
The 2013 proxy-voting season is about to begin, and activist investors are increasingly using the process to advance corporate environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, improvements...
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March 7 - News
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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March 6 - Insider Trading
On the political front, the House of Representatives approved a bill to avert a government shutdown on March 27 because of the recently enacted $85 billion sequestration bill.
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March 6 - News
“In the international markets, commodities are very, very dependent upon China. And China had its own headwinds through most of 2012.
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March 4 - News
Leading the borrowing brigade was Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX) , with $6.5 billion spread over five-, seven-, 10-, and 30-year paper.
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March 4 - News
Today, let's look at investing giant Gabelli Funds, the mutual fund and closed-end fund arm of GAMCO Investors and familiar to many because of Mario Gabelli, the well-known value...
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February 26 - Hedge Funds
If you train your ear, you can hear the sounds from copper kettles whistling their tunes to investors concerning top copper companies and the prevailing winds for the commodity...
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February 26 - News
Over the past few years, the historical prices of gold and other precious metals have given investors good reason to purchase metals stocks.
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February 21 - News
For years, various actions from the Federal Reserve have been major underpinnings of the stock market.
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February 20 - News
The market's best stocks include companies that have risen dozens of times in value by taking advantage of the market's weaknesses.
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February 14 - News
Nevsun Resources (USA) (NYSEMKT:NSU) is going through a transition and investors with patience could benefit. NSU will shift from gold production to copper production in mid...
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February 12 - News
After a year of weak stock returns and strong cash flow generation, natural resource mining stocks have joined the high yielding asset class.
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February 12 - News
In today’s zero interest rate environment, investors continue to search for yield. Investors starved for income could do well by digging deeper into the basic materials sector...
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February 11 - News
A steep decline was witnessed in the share price of Southern Copper Corp (NYSE:SCCO) after multiple analysts downgraded the company’s stock.
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February 11 - News
Every investor can appreciate a stock that consistently beats the Street without getting ahead of its fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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February 11 - News
Today, let's look at Fisher Asset Management, founded in 1979 by Ken Fisher. You may know Fisher by his longtime column in Forbes magazine, where he's also No.
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February 6 - Hedge Funds
With markets toying at all-time highs I have decided to take some money off the table, with the intention of buying into the next dip. The S&P hasn't qualified itself as in '...
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February 4 - News
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX) took a punishing hit in the market in early December.
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January 2 - Hedge Funds
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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December 31 - Stock Analysis
One of the biggest challenges for commodity investors is the state of the global economy, as I stated in this article.
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December 20 - Stock Analysis
I fondly remember watching the TV series "Dallas" with my grandparents back in the early 1980s. The show featured a wheeler–dealer, oil tycoon character named J.R. Ewing.
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December 19 - The Smart Set
Last week, Benzinga covered the Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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December 14 - Stock Analysis
In late November, I dissected the current and projected valuations for all the major sectors, further breaking them down by market cap.
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December 10 - Stock Analysis
Homebuilders and other housing industry stocks have been strong performers in 2012 as low interest rates offset higher underwriting standards for home loans.
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December 10 - News
Trading in the overall market was relatively normal yesterday; your average worry about the fiscal cliff and Europe snuck their way in, but there was nothing out of the ordinary...
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December 7 - News
George Soros is the founder and chairman of hedge fund Soros Fund Management LLC.
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November 5 - Dividend Stocks
Although the geographical size of China is perhaps not that difficult for North Americans to appreciate, their population is another matter.
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November 5 - News
