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Michael Johnston: ProShares, the largest issuer of geared ETFs that has made a push into the alternatives space, adding two more products to its lineup late last week. The new Ultra DJ-UBS Natural Gas Read more…
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This past April 21, according to Baker Hughes Inc.’s (NYSE:BHI) weekly rotary rig count, the number of rigs drilling for oil surpassed those drilling for natural gas. Back in May, I wrote an article on the big shift away from drilling for natural gas in favor of oil. At the time, there were 984 rigs drilling for oil. Just a couple of months later, on June 24, the count reached 1,003. That was the first time since Baker Hughes began separating the oil Read more…
Continuing a trend that has been playing out over the last couple years, two more issuers announced reductions to expense structures over the past few days. Teucrium, the company behind three resource-specific commodity products, announced the introduction of an expense cap on its Read more…
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Kent Moors: Today we’re going out into the Moroccan desert to evaluate shale gas fields here. It’s early morning, and I am now awaiting my “ride.” Read more…
I’ve talked about a number of ways to play the rise in natural gas supplies, even in the face of record-low prices in the United States. Today we’re going to focus on the electric power generation industry. Its use of natural gas as a fuel for its generators is growing at unprecedented rates. To illustrate the point, look at the following chart, courtesy of the Read more…
These days, natural gas producers are like the big homebuilders. Everyone hates them. Investment managers steer clients away from them, saying they’ve got further to fall. Why? Natural gas prices are the lowest they’ve been in years… at least in the United States. But a year from now, the situation will look a lot different. I expect natural gas to be trading 25 to 50 percent higher here in the United States than Read more…
Sumit Roy: Natural gas prices move back toward $4 as forecasts for warm temperatures fail to offset a large storage injection and economic head winds. Read more…
Sumit Roy: Bulls couldn’t muster enough buying power to send natural gas prices above the key $5 mark, despite the increasing inventory deficit last week. Read more…
Just a few short weeks ago, the natural gas market saw a jump up in prices to 10-month highs. The reason for this sudden jolt higher was the announcement that the United States had authorized its first big export project for liquefied natural gas (LNG). The U.S. Department of Energy authorized Cheniere Energy (AMEX:LNG) to export LNG from its Sabine Pass terminal. Sabine Pass is the largest of nine LNG Read more…
Sumit Roy: The Energy Informational Administration reported that storage operators injected 105 billion cubic feet into storage in the week ending May 20, 2011. That’s above analyst estimates, Read more…
To hear the mainstream media tell it, the commodities bubble has burst. Commodities are plunging across the board in response to the latest U.S. data, most of which seems to suggest that the American economic recovery is waning. Oil, which closed at $100 a barrel yesterday, was particularly hard Read more…
Sumit Roy: The Energy Informational Administration (EIA) reported that storage operators injected 92 billion cubic feet into storage in the week ending May 13, 2011. That was close to most Read more…
In trading on Thursday, the Wireless HOLDRs ETF (NYSE:WMH) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.95% on the day. Also up on the day are the Read more…
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