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Oil Inventories Plummet (USO, OIH, VLO)

Posted: December 15, 2010 at 10:43 am

The Department of Energy has just released what may seem like a shocking drop in its weekly report on oil inventories.  This morning’s data has a potential impact on the ...
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Goldman Sachs Supports Higher Gold & Oil to 2011-2012 (GLD, IAU, SGOL, DGP, GDX, GDXJ, OIH, USO, DIG)

Posted: December 2, 2010 at 9:50 am

Goldman Sachs periodically updates its outlook on sectors and the economy with a one to two-year horizon.  Yesterday's upgrade of economic output in 2011 is accompanied by some interesting aspects ...
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Correlation Trade Breaking? Dollar, Commodity, Stock, Bond (UUP, GLD, USO, TBT)

Posted: November 15, 2010 at 11:49 am

Calling the markets fast to react has become the understatement of the year.  Friday felt like a shift in sentiment was really taking hold with bond yields rising, commodities falling, ...
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October Inflows & Outflows: More Trends for ETFs Over Mutual Funds (GLD, USO)

Posted: November 10, 2010 at 11:37 am

Did retail investors catch the top of the market?  Many individual investors missed the huge market gains from the lows in early 2009 and now many are playing catch-up.  Fresh ...
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QE2 & Bernanke Pump Gold & Oil, Not Long Bonds (GLD, DGP, USO, OIH, DIG, TBT)

Posted: November 4, 2010 at 9:58 am

Quantitative easing is forcing investors into riskier assets as Ben Bernanke and the FOMC attempt to manufacture some inflation and after the US Dollar weakness.  We are seeing big moves ...
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DOE Oil Inventory Trumped By Lower Refining Capacity (OIH, USO, VLO)

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 10:44 am

We are continuing to see a mixed picture in oil and byproduct inventory levels in the United States.  Some is seasonal, and some may be due to outside demand issues.  ...
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Elections and Quantitative Easing Look Price In (DIA, SPY, QQQQ, USO, GLD, TLT, TBT)

Posted: November 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm

It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 ...
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Oil Prices Likely To Stay Below $85 (USO, OIL, OIH)

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am

Predicting oil prices a month from now is a risky business. Predicting oil prices a year from now is close to madness. Perhaps it is fairer to say that believing ...
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As Oil Heads to $90… or Back to $70 (USO, OIH)

Posted: October 4, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Now that oil has bested the $82.00 per barrel mark and rallied about 15% in six weeks, investors are trying to figure out what is next.  We are tracking the ...
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Oil Supplies & Weak Refining Offer No Oil Gains (OIH, USO, VLO)

Posted: August 11, 2010 at 11:00 am

The Department of Energy released its weekly Crude Oil and energy inventories this morning.  Despite some supply issues being obvious, there has been no help as investors are looking to ...
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Chart Breakout Calls: Oil, Financial, Industrial (USO, XLF, XLI, GE, COF, BWA)

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Chart breakouts are happening as the market recovers.  Maybe.  Monday's triple digit DJIA gains on the first day of the month followed an extremely strong July.  You just have to ...
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Mixed Picture in Oil Rig Counts (BHI, OIH, USO)

Posted: July 16, 2010 at 1:16 pm

With all of the trouble in drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, we wanted to look at the most recent weekly rig count data just released from Baker Hughes Inc. ...
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Can Apple Overtake ExxonMobil As #1 By Market Cap? (AAPL, XOM, MSFT, BP, XTO, USO)

Posted: June 24, 2010 at 6:02 am

24/7 Wall Street keeps a list of America's biggest companies by market capitalization rates in its own proprietary Real-Time 500.  The issue worth consideration here may seem rhetorical, yet it ...
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DOE: Crude Inventory & Refining Hold High (OIH, USO, VLO)

Posted: June 23, 2010 at 11:03 am

The Department of Energy released its weekly Crude Oil and energy inventories this morning.  Some real surprises were seen considering the time of year we are in and the mess ...
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DOE Data Shows Refineries Hanging Tough (OIH, USO, VLO, SUN, HES)

Posted: May 26, 2010 at 11:09 am

The weekly Department of Energy inventories data came out this morning.  There seems to be good news for those looking for price stability as crude oil inventories went up and ...
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