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Jared Cummans: Saudi Arabia has long been known as the world’s most dominant producer of crude oil, as the Middle East is rich with deposits of this fossil fuel. But the growth and rapid development of U.S. crude output has us on pace to dethrone Saudi Arabia in the not-so-distant future. Read more…
Kent Moors: Matters are beginning to come to a head in Iran. So far, the impact of Western sanctions – an EU embargo of oil purchases, European and U.S. restrictions on Tehran’s access to international banking, and a new move to intensify the trading Read more…
Toby Connor: Generally speaking, I’m not one to put much faith in conspiracy theories. I don’t think the price of gold and silver is being suppressed by the government or the Fed. Our money supply is no longer tied to gold so there is no logical reason for the Fed to care what the price Read more…
Kent Moors: Today I want to focus again on oil prices. It seems that some TV pundits have never heard (with apologies to Alexander Pope) that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Read more…
Kent Moors: After another pricing pull back of almost 10% earlier this week, crude oil prices rebounded on the back of an unlikely source. Read more…
Stephen Simpson: Options are, and please pardon the obvious pun, an invaluable option when it comes to crafting trading and investment strategies. At the simplest level, options offer a relatively simple and straightforward form of leverage for investors who want more Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: I think a lot of traders were surprised with the sharp sell-off last week in Crude Oil from the $100 resistance level. Read more…
Ben Gersten: Some investors fail to realize that successful investing is a matter of continuous performance, not instantaneous performance. Read more…
Toby Connor: At this point I think even the most diehard perma bear has to admit that my cycles technique has navigated the markets almost perfectly. When everyone was calling for the end of the commodity bull market this summer I correctly predicted what Read more…
Money Morning Staff: Analysts and experts love to say the U.S. is “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” That statement implies the U.S. is to natural gas as Saudi Arabia is to oil: One of the world’s top producers with decades (perhaps longer) worth of reserves of the commodity. Read more…
Jared Cummans: After the ECB’s announcement for a major bond-buying program yesterday, markets and commodities soared. One of the best performing was crude oil, as its fate hinged on whether or not the ECB was willing to help out some of its most indebted nations. Read more…
EconMatters: Oil and commodities are rising with renewed talk of buying bonds in Europe and future stimulus from the Federal Reserve in the United States. The problem of course is that higher oil prices partially offsets some of the benefits of these Monetary Read more…
Kent Moors: I just returned from a week down South with a few of my energy clients. It’s good to get my hands dirty and remind myself firsthand what is going on at the project level of some of the country’s top energy companies. But when I returned home this weekend, Read more…
Doug Casey: Doug Casey, chairman of Casey Research and expert on crisis investing, is on the search for real wealth – not investments in companies that push around paper. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Casey shares his pragmatic Read more…
EconMatters: Crude oil rallied alongside other commodities and the euro to its highest in three months last week on NYMEX, mostly from market’s expectation of new Euro Zone bailouts and a third round of quantitative easing from the U.S. Fed. Read more…
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