The Department of Energy issued yet another large drop in crude oil inventories in the U.S. for the latest week. We are watching the key ETFs of Oil Services HOLDRs (NYSE: OIH)…
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 key ETFs…
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 for commodities…
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, and stocks…
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 data from…
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 in gold…
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. This morning’s…
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 and a…
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 a prediction…
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 the United…
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 lower-risk assets…
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 keep in…
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. (NYSE: BHI). …
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 is almost…
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 in the…
