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What you need to know to pick the top mining stocks
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BHP BILLITON LTD. ADRs $32 (New York symbol BHP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; ADRs outstanding: 1.6 billion; Market cap: $51.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.8; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www. bhpbilliton.com) is a leading producer of iron ore, oil and natural gas, copper and coal....
A: Anglo American plc, 856.10 pence ($11.31 U.S.), symbol AAL on the London Stock Exchange (Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: 11.7 billion pounds ($15.4 billion U.S.); www.angloamerican.com), is based in the U.K and is one of the world’s largest diversified mining companies....

Avoiding these mistakes will help you invest money in stocks more successfully



Almost all investors make one or more of these mistakes sooner or later as they invest money in stocks. Unfortunately, these mistakes can be costly to correct:



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PASON SYSTEMS $18.59 (Toronto symbol PSI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (403-301-3400; www.pason.com; Shares outstanding: 84.3 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; Dividend yield: 3.7%) serves oil and gas drilling contractors in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Argentina....
A: Freeport-McMoRan Inc., $12.09, symbol FCX on New York (Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $16.2 billion; www.fcx.com), is a leading producer of copper, gold and other metals from mines in the U.S., Indonesia, Africa and South America.

In 2015, copper supplied 67% of Freeport’s revenue, followed by oil and gas, 11%; gold, 10%; molybdenum (which strengthens alloys and high-temperature steels while preventing rust), 5%; and other minerals, 7%.

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The “signal-to-noise ratio” is an engineering term. It refers to the level of usable “signal” in a communication (the useful part that carries the data), and compares it to the “background noise” (the useless accompanying part, which mostly consists of random bits of information).

When the signal is too weak, background noise drowns it out and makes it unusable....
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