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By Jon Nadler |
April 23, 2012
Precious metals markets started the new week with a bit of a mixed picture last night in overseas trading. Spot dealings showed gold falling $2.40 to $1,640.00 and silver down a dime to $31.60 per ounce. Platinum and palladium each advanced $1.
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By Frank Holmes |
March 27, 2012
To paraphrase the great Steve Martin, today’s investors are very passionate people and passionate people tend to overreact at times. An overreaction is exactly what’s happened in gold and global markets in recent weeks.
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By Sara Nunnally |
February 7, 2012
Currency volatility really affects the price of this commodity, negatively when coupled with climbing supply. And that's why we're seeing oil prices in this slump.
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By Zig Lambo |
December 5, 2011
Attention Shoppers: There are some amazing values currently available at bargain prices in the energy department. The current level of risk aversion by most investors has left the doors wide open for those who are willing to see real values.
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By Frank Holmes |
November 14, 2011
Oil prices rose about 5% last week to finish only a dollar short of regaining triple-digit status. Since dipping below $80 per barrel on Oct. 3, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices have increased almost 28%.
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By Scott Wright |
October 28, 2011
Thanks to higher prices and technological advances, oil companies are finding that the production of unconventional oil can be highly profitable even at higher costs. The higher prices have afforded positive economics to more reserves.
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By Keith Schaefer |
October 21, 2011
Retail consumers of oil - and retail investors - are the big losers now that oil has become a financial product, says the author of Oil's Endless Bid. The irony is they're doing it to themselves by buying ETFs and other financial derivative products.
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By Adam Hamilton |
October 18, 2011
Oversold levels never persist for long in an ongoing secular bull. As irrational fear that spawns them inevitably passes and fades, oil and oil stocks will be bid up to prices reflecting today's bullish fundamental reality for this crucial commodity.
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By Scott Wright |
September 30, 2011
The bottom line is the world's largest oil consumer is undergoing a radical shift in long-standing supply trends. The US is seeing its first material imports decline in a quarter century. This is partly due to a once-unfathomable rise in domestic output.
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By Ben Hobson |
August 12, 2011
Strolling around the boardroom in the Mayfair headquarters of stockbroking firm Old Park Lane Capital, Barney Gray contemplates a question about US debt and macro-economic misery
