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Seth Goldstein
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FMC's Crop Chemical Pipeline Reduces Patent Expiration Risk

On Dec. 20, shares of all three lithium stocks we cover traded sharply lower, as junior lithium producer Orocobre announced its outlook for lower prices into 2019. We already expected lithium carbonate prices on a Chilean-export basis to fall from $12,000 per metric ton in 2018 to $10,000 per metric ton by 2020. However, we reiterate our view that prices will recover thereafter.
Due to our above-consensus electric vehicle outlook, we forecast 19% annual demand growth for lithium over the next de...
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FMC Corporation

FMC is an agricultural sciences company. The company provides solutions to growers around the world with a product portfolio fueled by a discovery and development pipeline in crop protection, plant health, and personnel pest and turf management. This combination of technologies includes insect control products based on Rynaxypyr? and Cyazypyr? active ingredients; Authority?, Boral?, Centium?, Command? and Gamit? branded herbicides; Talstar? and Hero? insecticides; and flutriafol-based fungicides. The company's products are used in agriculture to improve crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds and disease, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Seth Goldstein

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