Articles Tagged "commodities"

Mining and the current economy

By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to Potash Investing News Brokerages UBS and Scotia Capital have both recently cut their price targets on fertilizer giants Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT) and Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU). These cuts are based on the reduced price tags on potash, diammonium phosphate, and urea fertilizers. USB cut its price [...]

Too soon to tell?

By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to Potash Investing News Even with the current market uncertainties, a bullish outlook for fertilizer giants such as Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT) and Agrium (TSX: AGU) remains unchanged, according to a recent Financial Post report. The continued high prices, relative to last year, in addition to a promising [...]

Supply and demand

By Daniella D’Alimonte - Exclusive to Potash Investing News Migao Corporation (TSX: MGO), a China-based company that processes potash into specialty potash-based fertilizers for the Chinese market, recently announced large purchase orders. The company will supply 50,000 tonnes of potassium sulphate to its wholly-owned subsidiary Guangdong Migao. By January 30, 2009, the product will be transported by [...]

Prices heading north even as strikes continue

By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to Potash Investing News The TSX main index made a turn-around from its bearish outlook on September 10. Commodities played a part in this bounce-back after a string of bad sessions. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT: TSX) made a 2.2 per cent gain to nearly US$153 per share and is [...]

Trades and spills

By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to Potash Investing News The S&P/TSX experienced its fourth day of bad trading September 5 after the benchmark index lost 957 points since the previous week. “This isn’t just a resource story any more,” said Anthony Demarin, president of BCV Asset Management in Winnipeg in an interview with Globe and [...]

Potash Fundimentals

The global population has more than doubled since 1950 and is expected to grow from 6.7 billion in 2008 to 9.2 billion by 2050. Unfortunately agricultural output, in particular in developing countries, is not growing at the same rate. The historical under-application of fertilizer has led to a chronic low yield performance whereby farmers in [...]

Potash demands inflate prices

By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to Potash Investing News Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX: POT) felt the effects of a downward commodities slide as it dropped another 1.9 per cent July 18 lowering its price to US$211.16 per share. However, analysts are very bullish about this venture. The company announced plans to increase capacity [...]

Introduction to Potash Investing

Prices for potash, a commodity used in fertilizers as well as cement production, are continuing to rise. “These new and higher price levels are supported by continued strong offshore potash demand and by the historically low potash working inventories that have resulted from record demand this year,” Potash Corp said on its website. As developing [...]

Introduction to Commodities Investing

If you are like many people, the last time you read about commodities in the news was when Bre-X Minerals collapsed in 1997, after news broke that the company had falsified results and the gold they had reported was nowhere to be found. Thousands of investors all over the world lost billions of dollars and [...]