What Earnings Say About Chemicals and Agriculture

Morningstar submits: By Damien Conover

Spencer Knight submits: With the earnings season upon us, this is a perfect time for me to point out trends of technology companies over the past 12 months that

Zachary Scheidt submits: At the beginning of the year I entered “round two” of a friendly stock competition with a few other financial websites.

Zacks.com submits: Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APD) is scheduled to report third quarter 2010 earnings on October 21, 2010, before

Tom Armistead submits:KMG Chemicals (KMGB) recently reported 4th quarter and full year earnings for its 2010 fiscal year, ending 7/31/2010. The full year earnings were a record, at 1.34, but the 4th quarter, while it reflected strong revenues, also had below average margins. The stock ran up prior to earnings, to 15.00, but has been as low as 13.69 since reporting.

Hans Wagner submits: To the surprise of many, the first quarter 2010 earnings for many S&P 500 companies are beating estimates, and some substantially so. If this is an indication of greater strength in the economy, does this mean that the market rally will continue?Analysts are behind the curve in raising their earnings estimates during the recovery.

By Christian Magoon:Gold investors know that one benefit of investing in the yellow metal is diversification. Gold's correlation, or price behavior relative to other investments, has been low when comparing it to stocks, bonds and commodities. In fact, its correlation to the U.S. dollar is negative, which should make sense to most investors.