Applied Materials gets boost from results
Solar business growing strong even as overall earnings decline
Applied Materials Inc. shares climbed as much as 7% Wednesday morning as a strong performance by the chip-equipment maker's solar energy business outweighed investors' concerns about an overall drop in the company's first-quarter earnings....MORE
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Applied Materials Inc. shares climbed as much as 7% Wednesday morning as a strong performance by the chip-equipment maker's solar energy business outweighed investors' concerns about an overall drop in the company's first-quarter earnings....MORE
Regular readers know that we have an abiding interest in chocolate:
Chocolate and bonbon prices to skyrocket
How Buffett Made a Killing in Chocolate, And Warren's Letters to Shareholders
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SEC Pressed on Climate-Change Disclosures and When will Warren Buffett get on Board the Love Train?*
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Cocoa hits 23-year high
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Chocolate makers, already beset by escalating dairy prices, are likely to encounter a bittersweet Valentine's Day. The culprit: a recent surge in the price of cocoa.
Chocolate makers, already beset by escalating dairy prices, are likely to encounter a bittersweet Valentine's Day. The culprit: a recent surge in the price of cocoa.
Raw cocoa futures for March delivery closed up $33 at $2,454 a metric ton on Wednesday, after reaching as high as $2,471 a ton. The gains on New York's IntercontinentalExchange punctuate a steep, three-week run that has pushed the near-term contract to its highest closing level since April 1985....MORE
