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Call open interest overhead could also keep it from the green. Fertilizer firm Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) is expected to take the earnings stage on Thursday, July 29, according to Thomson Reuters. However, even if the company reports stronger-than-anticipated fiscal second-quarter...

Look to these three crucial factors. I’ve often said that my stock-picking approach can be boiled down to this mantra: Share prices follow earnings. I challenge you to look back through history and find even a single company that increased its earnings quarter after quarter, year after year, and...

Stock has outpaced the S&P 500 by 30%. On one hand, JA Solar Holdings Co. (NASDAQ: JASO, Stock Forum) has been a broad-market standout lately, outpacing the S&P 500 Index (SPX) by 30% during the past 20 sessions. From a longer-term perspective, though, the shares have trended somewhat...

By 2015 we could see a new reactor coming online every five days. Over the past three months, I've written frequently about China's incredible appetite for fuels like natural gas, oil, and coal. If you're an investor or a trader, this is one of the "must follow" trends for the next decade. Today,...

Valuations within the industry have gone from cheap to dirt-cheap. Needless to say, the BP ADR (NYSE: BP) oil spill did some serious damage… It continues to create havoc for marine life and human livelihood. And it has sent stocks in both the offshore drilling and oil services industries plummeting...

There are few sectors as volatile, risky, yet as potentially lucrative, than initial public offerings (IPOs). Every time a company turns to the public markets to raise cash, it’s either a boom or bust. Very rarely are they ever just flat. This week was no exception. The much-hailed Tesla Motors (...

China's decision to let its currency rise is bad news. Retailers are "officially" in a bear market. That's what CNBC reporter Matt Nesto said last week. And he's right. A bear market is defined by a 20% drop in a stock or index from its peak. Matt was referring to the Morgan Stanley Retail Index (...

Floor seen around $4.50-$5 per MMBTU In 1994, the People's Republic of China imported oil for the first time. Until that year, the country's domestic production met its demand... a demand that wasn't all that large because China spent most of the 20th century either in a socialist, anti-business...

George Soros, Warren Buffett, and Bernanke have their doubts. Just a month or two ago opinions that the serious recession that ended in the last quarter of last year will return in a double-dip later this year were blown off as crazy. However, such opinions are now gathering credibility as...

I was standing on a dusty road in rural southern Texas... About a mile away, the blue topmast and white derrick of a drilling rig stuck up above the trees. From where I stood, I could see at least 16 wells either drilling or just completed. "Drilling companies ought to do real well this year," my...