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Fuel Your Portfolio With BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP): The Best-Run Commodities Company In The World

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:31 GMT

Some companies just stand out – both in their own sectors and in the larger market. Australian firm BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is one of them. As the largest and most diversified commodities producer in the world, BHP has leading positions in most key, low-cost, metal and mineral deposits in the world.[More...]

Negative Signals For Chinese Economy

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:19:01 GMT

While the Chinese economy expanded 8.9% in Q3, propped up by easy credit & continued government spending programmes, Europe, US & Japan continue to flounder. The world’s 3rd largest economy has recorded 7.7% overall growth in the first 9 months of 2009, with officials saying they are confident that the much talked about annual growth target of 8% will be achieved.[More...]

Wall Street's Recovery Still Unconfirmed

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:22:08 GMT

We are in the midst of earnings season and beyond the handful of companies with economic moats, there is little evidence to support Wall Street’s view that economic recovery is underway. The dichotomy between the financial world and the real world was one of the main culprits which led to the crisis of 2008.[More...]

Buy, Sell or Hold: BHP Billiton Is The World’s Premier Commodities Mining Play

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:42:56 GMT

BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE ADR: BHP) is the largest and most diversified mining producer in the world. And the company has had the foresight to acquire assets that provide access to the highest-potential minerals and commodities on the planet.[More...]

Potash (NYSE:POT): BHP Could Pay USD 125-130 for Potash Corp. (POT) - Merrill Lynch

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:41:46 GMT

Merrill Lynch/BAM is out with a major call on Potash (NYSE:POT) saying BHP Billiton should buy the potash producer. Firm estimates that an all-cash bid for POT at a 30% premium could be 13% EPS accretive in years 1 and 2. From discussions with clients during recent marketing, they believe the market is receptive to BHP acquiring potash assets.[More...]

Black Swan Chronicles: Chinese Imports Of Iron Ore Exceed Demand

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:25:23 GMT

Another sign of the Chinese muddling in commodities has emerged when it was known that Chinese imports of Iron ore exceeds the demand by 50 million tons for this year. Speculation (and accumulation of commodities) both by Chinese State authorities and Chinese private actors trying to front-run the expected recovery has brought up an excess of iron ore on the market, thus allowing no room for further upward evolution in iron ore prices.[More...]

Daily Credit Summary: October 6 - Aussie Rules, Fisk Drools

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:30:23 GMT

Spreads are mixed in the major indices today as single-names lagged any underperformance intraday and credit notably underperformed equities all day. Aside from very early trading tights in IG12/13, the on-the-runs were unable to break yesterday's tights (while SPY managed to gap up and hold well off yesterday's highs). Intraday ranges in IG and HY remained very muted again despite a pick up in volumes (as talk was of elevated activity in rolls and curves once again).[More...]

Olympic Dam Upgrades & Expansion Crucial To BHPs Future Operations

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:10:18 GMT

Mining giant BHP Billiton has announced revised figures that significantly upgrade the reclaimable reserves for its flagship Olympic Dam operation in southern Australia. Mining giant BHP Billiton has announced revised figures that significantly upgrade the reclaimable reserves for its flagship Olympic Dam operation in southern Australia. New figures released by BHP (NYSE:BHP) point to a 22% increase from 284[More...]

Cramer Still Likes China Because Of Job Creation

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:26:15 GMT

Jim Cramer for the better part of a year now has proclaimed his belief that the Chinese growth engine would pull the world economy out of this recession.[More...]

Steel Industry: Five Ways To Profit From The Commodity Nobody Likes

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:58:16 GMT

Forget Superman… the real man of steel is Lakshmi Mittal, chairman of the world's biggest steelmaker, Arcelor Mittal ADR (NYSE: MT). Mittal has built an empire – and a personal fortune – by being optimistic when it comes to the global steel industry. And he still maintains that confidence today, recently going on record to say that global demand could rise by more than 10% in 2010.[More...]

Evening Standard, London, market report column

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:45:00 GMT

Nov. 6--Stock market investors were doing their best to look on the bright side today after the combined losses from Royal Bank of Scotland and British Airways reached £1.79 billion during the first six months of the year.
BA responded with a rise of 9p at 195 1/2p -- making it the best blue chip performer -- while Royal Bank of Scotland, which this week was promised a further £33.5 billion of taxpayers' money, put on 0.4p at 35.6p.
Citigroup sees a brighter future for Lloyds Banking Group, 1/2p better at 83 1/2p, now that the Government has given the UK's biggest mortgage lender the go-ahead to raise £21 billion of new capital.

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Fuel Your Portfolio With BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP): The Best-Run Commodities Company In The World

Negative Signals For Chinese Economy

Wall Street's Recovery Still Unconfirmed

Buy, Sell or Hold: BHP Billiton Is The World’s Premier Commodities Mining Play

Potash (NYSE:POT): BHP Could Pay USD 125-130 for Potash Corp. (POT) - Merrill Lynch

Black Swan Chronicles: Chinese Imports Of Iron Ore Exceed Demand

Daily Credit Summary: October 6 - Aussie Rules, Fisk Drools

Olympic Dam Upgrades & Expansion Crucial To BHPs Future Operations

Cramer Still Likes China Because Of Job Creation

Steel Industry: Five Ways To Profit From The Commodity Nobody Likes

Evening Standard, London, market report column

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Inmet Announces Third Quarter Earnings of $1.10 Per Share Compared With $1.55 Per Share in the Third Quarter of 2008

Evening Standard, London, Market Report Column

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