The three major US equities indexes opened lower this morning following news from Europe that the G20 has refused to increase the IMF’s funding to deal with the Eurozone debt crisis. Crude…
Paul Ausick Cheniere Energy Partners L.P. (AMEX: CQP) has announced an agreement with affiliates of Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) under which Cheniere will receive $2 billion in financing for the first two of…
Markets opened slightly lower in the US this morning, but picked up steam in the morning and continued to rise, if slowly, for the rest of the day. The tech sector showed…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) Maintained Hold but cut estimates…
Natural gas prices in the US rose to more than $4.80/thousand cubic feet (tcf) in June, and have trailed off to under $3.20/tcf today. In late 2005, natural gas spot prices topped…
Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) has found shale gas in two vertical wells in China that were drilled in conjunction with Shell’s partner, Petrochina Co. Ltd. (NYSE: PTR), a unit of…
Paul Ausick Outside of those crazy inverse and negative-inverse ETFs, it is odd when you see non-M&A stocks hitting 52-week highs during a multi-day broad market sell-off. This is a time when investors are…
Markets opened higher this morning on renewed hope for a deal on Europe’s debt debacle. At a meeting of EU leaders, the group approved a 9% capital buffer to go into effect…
Day rates for shippers of container, crude oil, and dry bulk cargoes have been hit hard this year as an over-supply of vessels and general concerns about the weak global economies have…
When you have a credit rating downgrade of the U.S. followed by a 300+ point drop in the DJIA and another near-100 point drop in the NASDAQ, it is no shock at…
If you believe that an energy policy in the United States can happen in the coming years, there is almost no way that natural gas can be ignored. The massive shale plays,…
Each weekend we review the issues of the week before and look to the calendar ahead to see which issues are going to stand out with news or events. We have identified…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Stern Agee.…
Not more than two or three years ago, energy companies believed that the US would begin importing large quantities of liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Re-gasification plants were either expanded or built…
There are many key stocks to watch for The Unusual Suspects for the week ahead. Barron’s was rather influential, we have several carry-over issues from last week that are unresolved, there are…
