The outlook for aluminum is brightening, and so are the prospects for Alcoa, probably the best pure play on the versatile and light metal—and a cheap one. Alcoa stock (ticker: AA) looks like a bargain...
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Cleveland-Cliffs Crushes Earnings Estimates. Contract Steel Pricing Does It.
Rising prices helped steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs report much better-than-expected first-quarter sales and earnings. Prices for Cliffs steel rose even as spot prices for steel dropped in the first qua...
Rio Tinto to Pay Its Highest-Ever Dividend After Posting Record Profit
Text size Rio Tinto says it will pay a total dividend for the year of $10.40 a share, including a special dividend of $2.47. Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021...
Rio Tinto to Pay $7.7 Billion of Dividends After Posting Record 2021 Profit
Text size Rio Tinto Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021 jumped 72% as prices of commodities soared and the world’s second-largest miner said it would reward sha...
Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business
Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...
Albemarle Stock Tanks on Earnings. But Lithium Prices Are Going Up.
Text size Albemarle’s results are being hurt by inflation. Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg Albemarle stock fell, hard, after the lithium miner reported fourth-quarter numbers late Wednesday. Result...
Variable Dividends Are a Growing Trend in Resources and Energy. How to Play the Stocks.
For companies that pump out cash, dividends are a popular way to share some of it with their shareholders. But that cash-generation power may fluctuate, so many companies in the energy and resources s...
How to Invest in Commodities Using Funds
Commodities are rarely exciting—and the price of copper, corn, or even oil doesn’t stir investors the way a tweet from Elon Musk does. Yet commodities sit at the crossroads of three of today’s biggest...