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Stocks closed mostly flat on Tuesday on brisk trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEArca:DIA) and the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) closed fractionally higher, while the S&P 500 (NYSEArca:SPY) and S&P MidCap 400 both slid 0.1%. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEArca:IWM) put in the Read more…
Jason Simpkins: If you’re unsettled by the thought of gasoline at $4.00 a gallon, brace yourself. With tensions between Iran and the West quickly escalating, we could see gas jump to $6.00 a gallon at the pump in a matter of months. Read more…
Richard Rittorno: European shares and U.S. markets are climbing higher after China post healthy trade number, putting markets on a positive territory to a broad based recovery. The renewed risk appetite is helping growth sensitive commodities including crude oil. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: The traditional relationship between oil (NYSEARCA:USO) and natural gas (NYSEARCA:UNG) has broken down in recent trading. Part of the issue is relative supply and demand of these once tightly linked commodities. Another factor is speculation. Read more…
John Daly: The pieces and policies for potential conflict in the Persian Gulf are seemingly drawing inexorably together. Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding its ten-day Velayat 90 naval exercises, covering an area in the Arabian Sea stretching from east of the Strait of Hormuz entrance to Read more…
Monty Agarwal: 2011 has been a challenging year for a lot of investors, amateurs as well as professionals. Buy and hold mutual fund type strategies have simply not worked. Trends have disappeared too and have been replaced by sideways markets that see monstrous moves — in either direction — in the Read more…
Kevin Kerr: The best time to look at buying in any market is when it’s on its lows. And one sector that is being beaten like a dog right now, is offering some great buying opportunities on the cheap. Energy. Read more…
Sy Harding: Commodities seem to be following the same pattern as global stock markets. That makes sense since the stock market is concerned about slowing global economies, and slowing economies obviously mean less demand for raw materials used to produce and ship products. Read more…
Sean Brodrick: It’s funny — but not ha-ha funny — that oil prices are creeping higher even as the U.S. economy appears to be slowing down. Read more…
Sumit Roy: Resilient demand, tight supplies push Brent toward high for 2011. The Department of Energy reported this morning that in the week ending July 8, 2011, U.S. crude oil inventories decreased by 3.1 million barrels, gasoline inventories decreased by 0.8 million barrels, distillate Read more…
Hard Assets Investor: The author of ‘Oil’s Endless Bid’ provides his insight on the recent gyrations in the oil market.
Mike Norman (Norman): Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com. I’m Mike Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What key reference price levels should we be watching in crude oil at the moment? Read more…
Kerri Shannon: Panicked investors retreated from silver NYSE:SLV), oil (NYSE:USO) and copper (NYSE:JJC) this week, leading many to believe the commodities bubble had finally popped Read more…
Kent Moors: Crude oil prices rose for the third straight day yesterday (Thursday) – with more of the same to come. Read more…
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