…  coal companies have faced strong headwinds in recent months, an analyst at Citigroup said ingredients for a recovery …  note Friday, John Hill initiated coverage on Peabody Energy Corp. at “Buy” with a target price of $48, saying he sees a positive …  generation and the cost and productivity implications of mining accidents. Those factors have combined to send shares of St. Louis, …

…  represents a ’secular,’ transformational change in global energy markets, related partly to a shift by utilities from high-priced fossil …  of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union is rapidly dwindling. “While exploration activity has surged for uranium - across …

…  energy and mining stocks, the region’s worst performers in the past three months, rose as …  ticking up and metal prices higher, there might be a new window in the commodity sector that we are ready to exploit,” said Sergio …

…  speculation mounts that the three-year boom in metals and energy prices may have finished. “These commodity prices can come off to a …  metals on fears that slower economic growth means dwindling demand for raw materials. Gold futures have lost 20 percent from a …

…  two decades ago. Keith Larsen, chief executive for U.S. Energy Corp., picked up the mill 10 years later for practically nothing, …  operating nuclear power plants already are operating on dwindling stockpiles of uranium — some of it converted from Russian bombs …