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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…
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…
Jack Barnes: Iran kicked off the New Year with aggressive messages for the Western world, setting the stage for heightened political tensions and a huge oil price push in 2012. 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…
David Zeiler: If the Iranian government makes good on its recent threats to stop oil (NYSEARCA:USO) shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices would shoot up $20 to $30 a barrel within hours and the price of gasoline in the United States would rise by $1 a gallon. Read more…
Brian Sylvester: According to Jim Letourneau, author of the Big Picture Speculator, oil and gas aren’t going away any time soon. Indeed, new technologies offer the industry and investors profitable opportunities. Read more about why Letourneau considers shale gas, shale oil and enhanced oil Read more…
Richard Heinberg: The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term, making the current, highly fuel-dependent agricultural production system less secure and food less affordable. It is therefore Read more…
Karen Roche: With resource stocks extraordinarily cheap, 321energy.com Founder Bob Moriarty calls them “an opportunity of a lifetime,” in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report. However, investors need to steer clear of the dangers of derivatives. Moriarty explains how the Read more…
Kevin Kerr: Oil prices (NYSEARCA:USO) have been on a wild ride the second half of 2011, and that’s likely to continue for the foreseeable future. A myriad of factors are contributing to the growing volatility in the energy patch, everything from political unrest in various oil producing nations, weaker Read more…
Zig Lambo: Attention Shoppers: There are some amazing values currently available at bargain prices in the energy department. That’s pretty much what Chen Lin told us in this exclusive interview with The Read more…
January Crude Oil futures succumbed to selling pressure last week, reaching a high at $103.37 and forming a closing price reversal top. Once confirmed, this pattern often leads to a minimum 50% correction of the most recent rally. Although a sell-off is likely, it doesn’t mean the trend has changed to down. Read more…
George Mack: With energy prices flat to down in a murky global economy, MKM Partners Managing Director Curtis Trimble says investor agility is essential. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Oil put in a stellar upside performance from October to present, and now faces yet another “Resistance Challenge” (it’s passed the others so far) into the $100 price resistance confluence. Read more…
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…
Corey Rosenbloom: Stocks and Crude Oil performed well in October, breaking critical weekly (and of course daily) resistance levels to shift the dynamic to the buyers. Read more…
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| NASDAQ | 3009.42 | |||||||
| S&P 500 | 1431.27 | |||||||
| DIA | 133.13 | |||||||
| SPY | 143.4899 | |||||||
| QQQ | 65.95 | |||||||
| GLD | 167.34 | |||||||
| SLV | 31.34 | |||||||
| XLF | 16.09 | |||||||
| UNG | 23.10 | |||||||
| USO | 33.30 | |||||||
| VXX | 34.6199 | |||||||
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