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EconMatters: Since the Global Community all the sudden seems to be preoccupied with Market manipulation even though the authorities knew it was a problem for over 5 years with Libor Rate Fixing. It is high time authorities look at the Crude Oil market which has been Read more…
Jonathan Yates: As crude oil prices fall far below $100 a barrel, the trend is affecting the most oil-dependent economies in the world. Read more…
Ben Gersten: Oil prices sank to their lowest level in eight months Wednesday and the trend continues. Crude oil for August delivery fell yesterday (Thursday) below the $80 line to $78.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Read more…
Marin Katusa: One of oil’s most important characteristics is its fungibility, which means that a barrel of refined oil from Texas is equivalent to one from Saudi Arabia or Nigeria or anywhere else in the world. The global oil machine is built upon this premise Read more…
Sean Brodrick: OPEC is meeting today in Vienna. And boy, does this group have a lot to talk about. That’s because the price of U.S.-benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude is down about 25% since hitting a 10-month high of $110.55 a barrel back in March. Read more…
Larry D. Spears: Crude oil prices have been hammered of late. The cost of oil fell 21.8% between May 1 and June 1 – from $106.50 to $83.23 a barrel – the sharpest monthly drop since December 2008. Read more…
Jared Cummans: Commodity investing has surged in recent years, as investors have discovered the diversification benefits associated with low-correlated hard asset exposure in their portfolios. But with commodity investing also come the dangers of contango, as a number of traders fall prey Read more…
NYSE:DGAZ, NYSE:GASZ, NYSE:SCO, NYSE:UNG, NYSE:USO, NYSE:ZSL
Jared Cummans: Earlier in the year, it seemed like natural gas (NYSEARCA:UNG) was the commodity with little to no hope, as the fossil fuel posted some impressive losing streaks. But it seems that crude oil (NYSEARCA:USO) is hellbent Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: The last week of the year volume tends to be light due to the fact that big money traders are busy enjoying the holidays and waiting for their yearend bonuses. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Typically, the week before Christmas, stocks and commodities drift higher due to the lack of participants. Light volume favours higher prices, which is why stocks want to rise going 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…
Larry Edelson: In last week’s video and in my Nov. 7 column, I gave you very specific forecasts on key markets: The Dow Industrials, gold, silver, the euro and oil. Read more…
NYSE:EUO, NYSE:GLL, NYSE:SCO, NYSE:SDOW, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:ZSL
Chris Vermeulen: Crude oil was THE commodity to trade back in 2007-2008 when prices rocketed above $145 per barrel then dropped like a rock all the way back down to $35 per barrel leaving many investors and traders either greatly rewarded or dead broke. Read more…
Larry Edelson: Given the importance of what’s happening in virtually all markets right now, I’m taking the unprecedented step of giving you some insights I’ve recently provided my Real Wealth Report and VIP trading subscribers. Read more…
NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:EUO, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:GLL, NYSE:SCO, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:TNA, NYSE:TZA, NYSE:ZSL
To every season there is a turn, it’s a paraphrased Bible verse, a song lyric from the Byrds, and to Jeff Hirsch, a trading strategy for the unofficial start of Fall. Specifically, Hirsch, the editor of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, and the Commodity Trader’s Almanac, suggests Read more…
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