Commodities
Aug 4th, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured
The oil price is stubborn, like a two-year-old who refuses to eat his mashed peas. Despite all evidence that the market is well supplied, oil is over $70 a barrel again as I write. Taking the view out to the horizon, though, I think it will go higher and will ...
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Tags: Commodities, molybdenum, oil
Posted in Commodities, Featured |
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Jul 31st, 2009 |
By Alan Knuckman |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
Barring strict trade limitations, American poultry producers are in position to expand on the record exports to China.
And they're doing it by sending our poultry-refuse to the People's Republic. That's a fact that could lead a select few investors to [even more] serious back-door gains, but more on that in ...
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Tags: commodities trading
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies |
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Jul 1st, 2009 |
By Jonas Elmerraji |
Category: Commodities, Featured, International, Macroeconomics, Penny stocks
Water is essential for life. It's quite literally an investment that you can't live without. And while you might not be able to trade water futures on the Chicago Board of Trade, providing people with H2O is a $400 billion global industry, according to an article by Harvard's Garry Emmons.
"In ...
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Tags: water utilities
Posted in Commodities, Featured, International, Macroeconomics, Penny stocks |
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Jun 17th, 2009 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, you know Detroit’s once unstoppable auto industry is dying a fast, public death.
The American auto industry’s fall from grace coincides with a shift in the public’s perception of personal transportation. Higher gas prices and a new environmentally conscious ...
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Tags: coal
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics |
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Jun 9th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
Last week, I told you about a semimonopoly in the water business. Water, as you probably know, is a favorite theme of ours here at Penny Sleuth. It’s a commodity that most take for granted, but someday soon, will be a huge issue for billions of people. Actually, it already ...
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Tags: electricity, water
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies |
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Jun 3rd, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
Water is, by far, the most important element we need to survive. You can go a month without eating, but not even a week without water. Lack of adequate drinking water has killed almost 800,000 people this year. Now politicians are throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at water and wastewater ...
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Tags: water
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies |
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May 21st, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured, Penny stocks
Last year, oil prices went crazy. In a matter of weeks, oil shot up as high as $147 and came right back down. Today, oil is sneaking back up. The obvious temptation is to try and time it again.
The smart money, however, is looking elsewhere to take advantage. We found ...
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Tags: Refineries
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured, Penny stocks |
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Mar 17th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Featured
Leaving your money under your mattress isn’t exactly the safest bet. It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that government stimulus plans, bank bailouts, and lower interest rates all add up to inflation. If more money is circulating due to new spending measures, the value of each dollar --including ...
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Tags: gold, inflation, mining, silver
Posted in Commodities, Featured |
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Feb 5th, 2009 |
By Alan Knuckman |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured
A couple of weeks ago, I was on Chicago radio and asked a simple question: How will we know that the government stimulus is working? I’m normally at no loss for words, as anyone who has seen or heard me speak will testify to, but the answer didn’t hit me ...
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Tags: commodity, oil, stimulus
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured |
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Feb 4th, 2009 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured
As I write, the feeling in my fingers and toes are finally returning. For the last few hours, I’ve been standing among 300,000 of the loudest, most aggressive spectators I’ve ever seen.
I just got inside from the Pittsburgh Steelers’ victory parade. You see, I’m a huge Steelers fan. Believe me, ...
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Tags: Bank of America, geothermal, green industries, Lehman Brothers, steel industry
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured |
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