Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...

Lots of quarterly reports are on deck this week, to go along with all the delayed economic data expected to be released. Analysts and investors should have plenty to mull over. Earnings highlights will include reports from AT&T, McDonald's, Microsoft and Netflix, which are all expected to post...

Shares of many fertilizer companies took a big hit at the end of the July with the announcement of the breakup of Belarusian Potash marketing cartel. CVR Partners (NYSE: UAN), Intrepid Potash (NYSE: IPI) and Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) saw the most significant percentage upswings in the number of their...

Citing increasing demand for potash in the second half of the year, particularly from Latin America and Southeast Asia, as well as ongoing demand for phosphates and market growth in agricultural biotech, Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) this week have initiated coverage on several fertilizer makers. While...

Shares of fertilizer producers have pulled back recently, due in part to a USDA report that showed that, while the devastating drought in the Midwest continues, corn conditions were unchanged and soybean conditions improved slightly. Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) shares have fallen more than four percent in...

The hunt for bargains can be a never-ending quest. Analysts are bullish on the following dividend payers, judging by the consensus recommendations to buy shares and the mean price targets that imply upside potential. These possibly undervalued stocks have low P/E and PEG ratios, EPS and sales...

The Wall Street Journal has published a list of what it considers to be the five most important M&A deals of 2010. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and 3Par are the first on the list. Hewlett-Packard acquired 3Par for $2.1 billion after battling with Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to take ownership of the...