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- Nobody Cares How the Energy Crisis Gets Solved
- Paul Killinger submits: Most Americans don't think much about our present energy crisis, we just want it to end. We couldn't care less if: by Paul Killinger
- External links 2008-08-06
- Speculators: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em
- optionMONSTER submits: By Jon Najarian When we're talking about the stock market, in some circles speculation is a dirty word. I find that strange, as in so many other aspects of our economy speculators are not demonized. Spec homebuilders for instance, take on the risk of acquiring land, securing...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Oil to Natural Gas Price Ratio
- Toro submits: I am hearing a lot of chatter about the price of natural gas, particularly the ratio of the price of oil to the price of natural gas. Historically, the ratio of oil to gas has been 6:1 to 10:1. This week, that ratio soared as high...
- External links 2009-08-30
- CFTC and Commodity ETF Provider Face Off in Washington
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Ever since oil prices came withing spitting distance of $150 a barrel, commodity ETFs have been the subject of bogeyman suspicions. Will the CFTC hearings in Washington answer the question once and for all? ETFs are fairly simple index-tracking investment tools. Their low cost...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Natural Gas, Oil ETFs in the Hot Seat This Week
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: The two major oil and natural gas-tracking ETFs remain under the microscope this week as the CFTC resumes its investigation about their role in the commodities markets run-up and the role speculators had, if any. On Wednesday, the chief investment officer of the...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Game Over for U.S. Oil, Natural Gas ETFs?
- Commodity ETFs have been criticized from all corners. Investors have pilloried their inability to accurately track the price of their underlying asset. Industry watchdogs have assailed their inadequate disclosure of risks. And regulators have fretted over their ability to unduly manipulate futures markets. Yet ETFs like the United States Natural...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Is the Economic Reality as Transparent as a Joe Biden Sound Bite?
- Marc Courtenay submits: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, is seen with his son, U.S. Army Capt. Beau Biden, left, at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday,...
- External links 2009-07-07
- What Regulatory Overhaul Means for Some Commodity ETFs
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: ETF providers and investors are anticipating overhaul within the financial industry, and the changes could greatly impact how commodity ETFs operate in particular. The financial industry has been abuzz about regulation overhaul for some time now, with the regulatory issues that many ETF providers...
- External links 2009-07-01
- California Resource Maximization: Marijuana First, Then Oil
- Gregor Macdonald submits: A number of writers and commentators, myself among them, have joked throughout 2009 that budget-crushed California would eventually be forced to tap unconventional sources of revenue. Frankly, I thought offshore oil would be first. Somewhere beyond the analytical error of drill drill drill, which...
- External links 2009-07-19
- Checking in on the U.S. Oil, Natural Gas ETFs
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Over the past few months, many have criticized large index funds of having a hand in manipulating and controlling crude oil prices. The largest oil ETF has been cited as an example, but the fund’s provider has spoken out against this notion....
- External links 2009-07-13
- How Traders Are Front-Running ETFs
- Larry MacDonald submits: Another aspect of exchange-traded funds ETFs coming to the fore lately is front-running. That’s the practice where traders buy ahead of large orders from ETFs and short sell ahead of large sell orders. They scalp profits by flipping their newly acquired long positions back to...
- External links 2009-10-11
- Chart of the Week: Peak Hurricane Season Is Here
- Bill Luby submits: This year the Atlantic hurricane season has been a quiet one, but that is not to say things cannot heat up over the course of the next month or so. In fact, as this week’s chart of the week shows, the hurricane season...
- External links 2009-09-07
- Inventories May Have Dropped, But Crude Oil Prices Still Constrained by Natural Gas Oversupply
- The WTI crude oil futures curve click to enlarge has flattened substantially in the past month. It's an indication that the US crude reserves in storage may be on a decline and people are becoming more comfortable taking deliveries in the spot market. by Walter Kurtz
- External links 2009-09-17
- Energy Inventories (9/4/08)
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Today's release of weekly inventories for energy related commodities showed that stockpiles were either inline with or lower than analysts were forecasting. As shown in the table below, natural gas stockpiles were inline with expectations, crude oil and distillates were lower than expected,...
- External links 2008-09-04
- Thursday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets
- David Fry ETF Digest submits: << Return to page 1 - Stormy Weather by David Fry
- External links 2008-09-04
- Winter Heating Oil, Nat. Gas and Crude Oil Preview
- Timothy Charles submits: As we proceed into the winter season, as far as refiners are concerned, the focus will shift from the unleaded gasoline inventories to the residual fuel or heating oil [HO] inventories. When the winter is expected to be a warm one, sort of like what we saw...
- External links 2008-09-03
- Wednesday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets
- David Fry ETF Digest submits: << Return to page 1 - Straight Talk by David Fry
- External links 2008-09-03
- Weekly Market Outlook: Sept. 2 - 5
- Matthew Bradbard submits: With the summer behind us and most traders getting back to work, we should see the volume start to pick back up in all sectors. This is music to our ears because the erratic movements and increased volatility should die down and allow more defined trends...
- External links 2008-09-02
- Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot (9/2/08)
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: With oil trading down $8, we thought we'd update our trading range charts of major commodities. Oil is currently making another leg down after breaking below $110 support. The next level of support for oil is at the $100 level. Commodities are down...
- External links 2008-09-02
- The $64 Trillion Question: What's the Dollar Really Worth?
- Marc Courtenay submits: It appears that everybody and their cousin believes the dollar is going to stay up and be virile like a tired old man who takes his viagra every four hours. by Marc Courtenay
- External links 2008-09-05
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