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NOAA Meteorologists Predict Aggressive Hurricane Season: What It Means For Home Depot, Generac, Other Storm-Related Stocks
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 1:30pm | 511Meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have issued a bleak forecast for 2024’s hurricane season, which runs June 1 to Nov. 30. The most devastating hurricanes cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damages and can greatly impact the financial markets....
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New UN Study Predicts $1 Trillion Of World's Most Vital Reefs Will Vanish By Century's End
Monday, June 26, 2017 - 10:17am | 688Putting a price on planet damage isn’t always easy, but a pair of new reports together peg the value of the Earth’s major coral reef systems at upward of $1 trillion, with the endangered Great Barrier Reef alone worth about $42 billion. The reports, one by the United Nations Educational...
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Will Ag Stocks Flourish Now That California's 5-Year Drought Is Officially Over?
Saturday, April 15, 2017 - 4:26pm | 1188The West Coast/California drought has finally ended, with Gov. Jerry Brown lifting the drought emergency in most parts of California, barring a few San Joaquin Valley counties. Does this mark the all clear for investors in the agriculture sector? Not necessarily. Let's take a look at performance of...
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Hurricanes And Power Outages Unlikely To Stop Rising Natural Gas Prices
Saturday, October 8, 2016 - 5:39pm | 430Johnson Rice analyst John Rowan doesn’t believe Hurricane Matthew will have any lasting impact on natural gas prices, which have been on fire since bottoming back in March. On Friday, Rowan told Benzinga that he’s as bullish as ever on gas prices in the wake of Matthew. Rowan explained...
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Surge In U.S. Hail Damage Could Impact These Companies' Bottom Lines
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 1:41pm | 358The latest data from TickerTags indicates that the unusually high number of severe weather events in the South and Southwest could end up having an impact on the bottom lines of a number of companies. Social media has been buzzing about hail damage, which is good news for some companies and bad...
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Macquarie Discusses Hurricane Season And Stock Plays
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 8:39am | 506In a report published Monday, Macquarie analyst Amit Kumar discussed the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane season, noting that a decade has passed since a land-falling Florida hurricane has struck. "To give you some perspective of how much time has elapsed since then, SPX was trading at 1248 at year...
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Amazon Added To List Of Companies On NOAA Project
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 12:36pm | 249Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) added its name to a list of companies collaborating with a government science agency that wants to boost the utility of its data. Amazon's web services unit said it signed an agreement with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration to expand...
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Farmers' Almanac Warns Of Cold Winter: 5 Tips To Lower Utility Bills
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 10:59am | 790Despite many news channels and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reassuring the public that this winter will be warmer, do not sell your shovels and sleds. The Farmers’ Almanac is predicting another winter cursed with below-average temperatures. Image Credit...
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NOAA: 2013 Hurricane Season to be 'Extremely Active'
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 2:21pm | 166Much of the east coast was hoping to hear that the 2013 hurricane season would be tame but according to a report released by Colorado State University and sponsored by the National Hurricane Center, that isn’t likely to be the case. The report calls for an “extremely active” season with 13 to...
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The Free Market, Small Government, and Hurricane Irene
Friday, August 26, 2011 - 11:29am | 1163With the increasing possibility that Hurricane Irene will deliver a “hundred year” event to the Eastern Seaboard, the time has come to examine the level of preparedness our exposed citizens on the coast face, as well as the anticipated scope and extent of what is likely to be a massive local, state...
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Crude Oil Reaches Technical Resistance (USO)
Monday, January 4, 2010 - 10:14am | 107Crude Oil and the United States Oil Fund (NYSE: USO) are continuing to break to the upside as investors are seeing strong demand due to colder than normal temperatures in the United States. According to The National Weather Service (NOAA), the 6 to 10 day forecast projects colder than normal and...