Nathaniel August’s Mangrove Partners is known for outperforming the market very often; in the first three years since its launching (2010), the fund brought an astonishing return...
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
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August 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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May 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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May 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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April 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In Monday trading news, TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:TSYS), KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:KBIO) and Peabody Energy Corp.
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November 23 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News, Stock Analysis - Comments
Like it or not, climate change and society's attempts to constrain it have a growing impact on companies' bottom lines.
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September 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
China has accounted for nearly all of coal's demand growth over the past decade.
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September 21 - Commodities, News - Comments
Coal is out of favor in the United States. However, that view isn't universal across the world.
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September 17 - News - Comments
The press is making hay over the proposed rules the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to release later this month regarding carbon emissions at newly built electric...
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September 17 - Commodities, News - Comments
The day after I laid out my case for why the canary in the coal mine isn't dead yet, The Wall Street Journal published a story indicating the Obama administration is still actively...
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September 16 - News - Comments
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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September 14 - News - Comments
Falling coal prices have hit coal miners with a lot of debt on their balance sheets. Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) is not an exception.
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September 13 - News - Comments
Coal is one of the most plentiful and least expensive sources of energy on Earth. That's the good news.
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September 12 - News - Comments
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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September 11 - News - Comments
Listen to some analysts and you'd get the impression coal companies should simply close their mines and call it a day.
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September 11 - News - Comments
Metallurgical coal is used in the steel making process and although prices are weak today, demand is set to increase over the long term.
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September 11 - News - Comments
In 2011, Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT) paid $3.3 billion for Western Coal, materially increasing its focus on metallurgical coal right before that market started to falter.
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September 10 - News - Comments
Upton Sinclair coined the phrase 'King Coal' in a novel by that name published nearly 100 years ago.
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September 10 - News - Comments
Coal is predominantly used in the production of electricity and in the steel making process. The outlook for both of these end markets is different today.
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September 6 - News - Comments
As coal miners around the world deal with lower commodity prices, Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) has an ace up its sleeve that's helping it get to the other side of this...
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September 5 - News - Comments
There's not much Joy Global Inc. (NYSE:JOY) investors can look forward to, for at least another year. That's what the company's latest earnings release had to say.
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September 4 - News - Comments
Coal is one of the most plentiful and least expensive sources of energy on Earth. That's the good news.
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September 4 - News - Comments
At a time when the whole coal industry faces severe headwinds, Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) surprised analysts by reporting a profit instead of a loss.
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August 29 - News - Comments
Coal use for the generation of electricity was up almost 5% year over year in June according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Natural gas use was down 16%.
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August 29 - News - Comments
Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:CLD) is increasingly looking abroad for growth.
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August 28 - News - Comments
Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT) has fallen 65% year to date. With the Chinese economy slowing, coal prices have stalled and coal companies have fallen out of favor.
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August 28 - News - Comments
Aug. 27 is one of the most important days in the history of the energy industry for two reasons: coal and oil.
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August 27 - News - Comments
The World Bank has made a public shift to stop funding coal fired electric plant construction abroad.
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August 27 - News - Comments
Five years ago this month, we had just bounced off an all-time high crude price near $150 per barrel, and we were concerned about the long-term availability of black gold.
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August 27 - News - Comments
Not all investment decisions go right, even if they are made in companies that belong to sectors no economy can do without. One great example is the mining equipment industry.
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August 26 - News - Comments
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) recently decided to stop development on a nuclear facility in Florida and to retire some coal assets. It's looking to build gas plants instead.
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August 26 - News - Comments
Rhino Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE:RNO) stands out from the coal pack because of its around 14% yield.
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August 23 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis...
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August 23 - News - Comments
Arch Coal Inc (NYSE:ACI)'s stock price has appreciated more than 12% over the past month, but some investors will strongly argue that this is nothing more than a dead cat bounce...
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August 22 - News - Comments
The Motley Fool's readers have spoken, and I have heeded their cries.
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August 21 - News - Comments
How do you make an entire corporate board squirm? Well, one way is to get enough people to support your shareholder resolution when management opposes it.
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August 20 - News - Comments
Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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August 19 - News - Comments
If it weren't for the export market, U.S.-based coal producers would be in dire straits these days.
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August 12 - News - Comments
In previous eras, coal dominated the energy consumption market, being both abundant and cheap. However.
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August 10 - News - Comments
Is the coal industry slowly making a comeback? Several coal companies such as Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) and CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE:CNX) have rallied in recent...
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August 8 - News - Comments
In some ways, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:ARLP) defies all logic of what is happening in the coal space today.
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August 8 - News - Comments
A few days ago, Fool analyst Michael Olson added CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX), a freight railroad company that dominates the east coast, to his real-money portfolio.
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August 7 - News - Comments
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that energy use will grow “56% between 2010 and 2040,” largely because of emerging markets.
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August 7 - News - Comments
Coal companies are still recovering from write downs, but slowly, the industry is coming back. Now, there are a number of companies trading at or below book value.
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August 5 - News - Comments
It’s no secret that the coal industry in the United States is under fire.
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August 3 - News - Comments
