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...
View ArticleETF 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%...
View ArticleCould 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleUBS 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRig 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...
View ArticleWhich 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...
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleTech 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...
View ArticleGold 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...
View ArticleDow 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%....
View ArticleWill 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleCanada 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...
View Article4-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...
View ArticleDow 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...
View ArticleWorld 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...
View ArticleGold 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...
View ArticleGeneral 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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