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Peabody Energy, Arch Coal, Ameren and Washington University plan to announce Tuesday a clean coal initiative aimed at making St. Louis “the nation's center for clean coal research,” the university said Monday. (BTU) (ACI) (AEE)
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
GILLETTE - Peabody Energy has announced that it is freezing all hiring and recruiting at its three Wyoming coal mines. CEO Greg Boyce told employees about the hiring freeze in a letter Tuesday. He also says Peabody will re-evaluate all capital project ...
The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Peabody Energy announced late Tuesday that it sold its 62.5 percent interest in the Baralaba Mine in Australia to Cockatoo Coal Limited for $33.6 million. (BTU) (BTU)
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Peabody has a strong long-term growth trend in Australia following major acquisitions in 2004 and 2006 and the development of three new mines in the past two years. Through September, the company has increased Australian production 15 percent in 2008 while overall industry growth has been limited to 3 percent. The company is also the second-largest owner in the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group export...
The Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Peabody Energy and Arch Coal Posted in Finance & Economics
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Mini-tender offers are devised to seek less than 5 percent of a company's outstanding shares, thereby avoiding many procedural and disclosure requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that apply to larger tender offers. The SEC has issued an investor alert regarding these mini-tender offers, noting that "some bidders make mini-tender offers at below-market prices, hoping that they...
SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Ryan Barnes submits: News out of China today is that quotas for coal exports were higher than expected at 15.9 million tonnes, putting the export quota total for the year above 47 million tonnes. While Chinese officials say that it’s too late in the year to put the quotas into effect, the news does reflect that China isn’t converting to a net importer of coal just yet. They appeared to be right on...
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
“Electricity costs would skyrocket,” according to Vic Svec, senior vice president of investor relations and corporate communications at St. Louis-based Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU). The statement above came via e-mail in response to my inquiry about whether Peabody, the world’s largest private-sector coal company, had any reaction to the content of the San Francisco Chronicle audio which [...]
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The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Peabody Energy said Friday that its board has doubled the size of its current share repurchase program, raising the total authorized amount to $1 billion. (BTU)
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Peabody Energy Corp. said Friday that it doubled the size of its buyback program to $1 billion. "We have a backdrop of record earnings, strong cash flows and ample liquidity," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Boyce. "The fundamentals of the business are sound, and we maintain strong capacity to continue to grow the company." Peabody has been purchasing its...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
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Market Wire - Investment Opinion (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
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Fool.com (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
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Business Week (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Merrill Lynch () posts $5.56 third quarter loss per share from continuing operations, vs. $2.99 loss a year ago, on 31% drop in adj. net revenue. It says third quarter results impacted by net write-downs of $5.7 billion resulting from previously announced sale of U.S. super senior ABS CDOs, termination and potential settlement of related hedges with monoline guarantor counterparties; write-downs of...
