Energy
Dec 2nd, 2008 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Energy, Investing Strategies, Technology
We don’t play politics at Penny Sleuth. Frankly, we can’t agree on politics. But that doesn’t mean smart investors should ignore what Washington’s doing. Some of the largest profits in history spawned from legislation and court rulings.
Take solar energy for example. After the introduction of the Solar Energy Research and ...
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Tags: defense stocks, energy stocks, Obama, Penny stocks
Posted in Energy, Investing Strategies, Technology |
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Nov 19th, 2008 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics
Clientele Effect: The preference of an investor or group of investors for buying a particular type of security.
— BNET Business Dictionary
We’ve seen a run up of banks, real estate, and commodities, just to see all three crash in unforgettable fashion. Now, investors are a little more skeptical…at least, you’d think ...
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Tags: Buying SUVs, Commodities, Dividend-paying Companies, Income Investors, Low Energy Prices, Run up on Banks
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Featured, Macroeconomics |
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Nov 17th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Energy, Featured, Housing, Macroeconomics
The battle between credit contraction and government-sponsored inflation rages on. For several weeks, the forces of credit contraction have been winning.
There are fears that banks will never expand lending again, and that everyone with debt wants to pay it down as fast as possible.
I think these fears are excessive. They ...
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Tags: credit contraction, demand for debt, existing mortgage debt, Federal Reserve, rising inflation
Posted in Energy, Featured, Housing, Macroeconomics |
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Oct 28th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Investing Strategies
The price of oil goes up. The price of oil goes down. On July 11, 2008, oil sold for a record $146 per barrel. Just over two months later, on Sept. 15, oil plunged through the $100 mark for the first time since last February and was changing hands at ...
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Tags: Cost to hire a tanker, The Crude Oil, The Price of Oil, Two Billion Barrels of Oil, Very Large Crude Carriers, Well Managed Tanker Company, Worlds Oil Moves by Pipeline
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Investing Strategies |
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Oct 21st, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Technology
“It’s not easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog many years ago on Sesame Street. At the time, Kermit was simply referring to the fact that he’s a frog, frogs are green and it’s tough out there for green frogs — especially if they can talk.
But today, “being green” has ...
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Tags: Being Green, Cost-Efficient Energy Storage, Electricity from windmills, Energy Conservation and Efficiency, GE spent Millions On Green, Low-carbon Environmental virtues, Support renewable power systems, Wind and Solar Power
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Technology |
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Sep 9th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy
In the world of energy and scarcity, the name of the next president will matter to us quite a bit. “People are policy,” as Ronald Reagan used to say.
But then again, a lot of energy and scarcity facts defy party labels. The energy resources are out there.
They are what they ...
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Tags: energy and scarcity, Presidential energy policy, rising fuel costs, world commodity boom
Posted in Commodities, Energy |
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Sep 5th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Energy, International
Western nations — the U.S., in particular — are now experiencing the bow wave of a profound change in the current and future availability of oil. According to recently published data, oil output from all major Western oil companies is on an ominous decline trend. Exxon Mobil, for example, announced ...
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Tags: Global Oil Problems, national oil companies, NOC, Western oil companies, Western oil supply, world's oil resources
Posted in Commodities, Energy, International |
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Aug 28th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Energy, International
Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Mogadishu, Mumbai, Mangalore…all trading cities along the fabled rim of the Indian Ocean. These eastern African cities thrived between the 12th and 18th centuries, with ships sailing in and out on monsoon winds. They will thrive again on the tailwind of a long-term bull market ...
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Tags: African oil supply, African trade routes, Congo oil sands, investing in Africa, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Posted in Commodities, Energy, International |
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Aug 26th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Energy, Technology
Imagine a municipal bus that’s powered by an electric motor, crawling along the crowded streets of Beijing. What does this bus have in common with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California?
Or imagine offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Alaska or the North Sea. What do ...
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Tags: electric hybrid vehicles, electricity from microturbines, investing in microturbines, microturbines, offshore platforms, the Beijing bus
Posted in Energy, Technology |
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Aug 20th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Energy, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Last year, I devoted several issues of my Strategic Investment service to the web of structured finance. I think it paid off.
Since then, banks and brokerage stocks were punished. Energy and material stocks have soared-thanks to the Fed’s inflation campaign. Fed officials have taken their ability to devalue the U.S. ...
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Tags: Energy, George Soros, gold, more government regulation, natural resources, super bubble
Posted in Energy, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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