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EconMatters: Thoughts on The Current Oil Market
WTI 6-month Chart Source: nasdaq.com, as of 3/23/2015 am Crude oil has slid into a definitive bear market starting 2H14. Since most of the oil companies (majors as well as E&Ps) based their...
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Gold: Impact From The Fed and Fear Trade
Following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen made it clear (again) that interest rates would not be raised until inflation gains more steam. With...
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Millions of Dollars Gone Up in Smoke By Distressed Energy Loans
Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are suffering huge losses from both directly backing some struggling oil...
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U.S. New Home Sales Jump to 7-year High? Must Have Been a Cold Winter…
Do you know how cold it was up north this year? How cold was it? It was so cold up north this year that old people like me bought houses in Florida. The headlines said that new home sales boomed:...
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U.S. Jobless Claims Bubbling Up
Initial jobless claims have reached an all time record low level for this time in March in a continuing string of record lows has now persisted since September 2013, with the exception of a few weeks...
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Oil Crash Showcasing Refiners
By Chad Fraser As with any big economic shift, the oil-price plunge has left winners and losers in its wake. On the winning side are US consumers, who, despite a recent rise, are still paying an...
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Insider Reveals Another Oil Crash Coming
By Karim Rahemtulla Crude oil prices touched their lowest closing level in six years last week, then rallied on the back of a weakening U.S. dollar. The strength of the dollar started to diminish...
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Another 8 Million Barrels Added to Oil Storage
EIA Inventory Report The EIA Petroleum Report came out yesterday and the report was pretty bearish. Much worse than the API Report released the night before. Of course, Oil was up on the report, in...
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ETF Performance Review: US REITs Lead As Commodities Plunge
By James Picerno US Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are still firmly in the lead among the major asset classes for the trailing one-year period. The Vanguard REIT (VNQ) has gained a hefty 28.6%...
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Could An Iran Nuclear Deal Send Oil To $20?
By Tyler Durden As the deadline for Iran nuclear talks looms, the possibility of a deal which in some way lifts crude export sanctions is starting to be realized. As we warned 2 weeks ago, despite...
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Why None of Us Can Invest Like Warren Buffett
By Chris Worthington Warren Buffett has achieved an incredible compounded return of 19.4% per year since taking control of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK.B) in 1964. So it’s no surprise that...
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UBS on Gold Outlook
By Mike "Mish" Shedlock An interesting article came my way from UBS analyst Julien Garran on the driver for gold. I do not have a link to share so excerpts will have to do. Garran's article...
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The Un-Recovery of U.S. Housing Market
By Shah Gilani When I moved to Sarasota, Fla., in 1999, I was invited by a prominent local to an “un-wedding wedding” to make new friends in town. I accepted the invitation and, not wanting to...
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Rig Count Still Matters, But Not To Oil Production
By Karim Rahemtulla Focusing on rig counts to try to determine the velocity of future oil production is a fool’s pursuit. Sure, they’re a good measure during boom times. But during busts, seasoned...
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Which Way Mr. Market?
By Lance Roberts A few weeks ago I discussed the importance of price momentum as an important component of portfolio management particularly in the late stages of a market advance when "investor...
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Will Argentina Become the Next Big Shale Oil Producer?
By Alexis Arthur, Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. Still, with a resource potential both vast...
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Tech Boom Driving U.S. Shale Oil
By Frank Holmes Oil mounted a strong surge last Thursday as Saudi Arabia-led forces carried out a series of airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, part of which is bordered by the Bab...
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Gold Outlook 2015
2015 Likely to Mark the End of the Bear Cycle for Gold Metal Focus The Gold Focus report argues that gold will continue to face challenges in the near-term, in particular the global macroeconomic...
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Dow Beats S&P 500 and Emerging Markets in 1Q15
For global equity investors what worked so well last year is struggling to work this year. Last year, the S&P 500 was the place to be. It gained nearly 11.5%. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 was up 4.3%....
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Will Stock Market Correct or Collapse in 2015?
The question on everybody’s mind for 2015 is when will the stock market start to correct in value and will it turn into a 50+% collapse? Over the last 15 years investors has been through a lot in...
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China Energy: Cheap Oil and Natural Gas Kills Coal
We have all heard about the doom and gloom that the U.S. coal sector is facing – a double-whammy of abundant supplies of cheap shale gas coupled with the regulatory noose that the Environmental...
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Canada Losing $30+ Bn a Year on Tar-Sands Oil
By Sprott Money Oil is our most-precious commodity as fuel for the global economy. It is also becoming a scarce commodity, as global production has flattened, while global demand continues to climb...
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4-month Market Forecast on Stocks, Bonds, Gold and Oil
By Chris Vermeulen Everyone is looking for the holy grail of the financial market which will tell what will happen next in stocks, commodities, bonds etc… Knowing that the holy grail of trading does...
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Dow Up 27 Points After Fed Minutes
By Garrett Baldwin The DJIA Index added 27 points Wednesday following a busy day of earnings reports and the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in March. The...
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World Markets Review
By Jeffrey P. Snider Since November of 2014, the S&P 500 Index (IVV) has been traded within a range of 150 or so points. During that time, it has broken the 50-day moving average a total of 7...
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Gold Not Yet Bottomed in Dollar
By Commodities Now Demand and dollar prices continue to build a base Like most markets, gold takes time to recover from periods of turbulence and in early 2015 it is continuing the stabilization of...
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General Electric Company Resorts To Financial Engineering to Boost Stock...
GE Underperforms Market Jeff Immelt, feeling the pressure for a stock price that has vastly underperformed the overall market during his tenure as CEO at General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), has finally...
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Oil Price: A Sword That Cuts Both Ways
By Benedict Clements and Marta Ruiz-Arranz Plunging oil prices have taken the public finances on an exciting ride the past six months. Oil prices have fallen about 45 percent since September (see April...
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More Thoughts on the Current Oil Market
WTI surged to close at $56.01 a barrel on Wednesday, while Brent closed at $62.86 after the US crude oil inventories showed a ‘less-than-expected increase’. The latest weekly inventory (week ending...
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Is LinkedIn Corp Mania Over After 20% Plunge? (LNKD)
By Mike Shedlock It’s tough predicting the end to manias. Yesterday I pondered a 21% plunge in extended hours trading in LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD). Is the mania over? Please consider LinkedIn Plunges...
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Here’s Why Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Still Betting on International Business...
By David Sterman As a resident of New York State’s Hudson Valley, I have met dozens of local citizens who worked for International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) in its heyday. A massive set of...
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Paypal Holdings Inc (PYPL) Returns to the Online Gambling World
Following the merger of Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) with eBay in 2003, the company placed a self-imposed ban on the use of its services on online gambling platforms. One of the main reasons given...
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Apple Inc (AAPL): A Long-Term Short For The Patient Investor
Holiday Melt Up in Stocks Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and most stocks do routinely well during the 4th quarter, and especially the last couple of months of trading after earnings are out, and the fund...
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