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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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