Gas Prices Mysteriously Dip Ahead of Holiday
Demand is supposed to push gasoline prices higher as a holiday season approaches. The opposite is true this Thanksgiving week, and there is no ready explanation. The AAA Fuel Gauge shows the price for…
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Newest first · Page 389Implied Gains in Oil Field Services Stocks May Not be Real (SLB, HAL, BHI, RIG, NOV, WFT)
Share prices for the oil field services companies dipped in late July shortly after many of the companies had posted new 52-week highs. The stocks have been struggling since then, primarily as a result…
Kodiak Thrives After Boosting Secondary & Note Offerings (KOG)
Secondary offerings and capital raises often add pressure to a stock. Don’t tell it to Kodiak Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE: KOG). The company raised the size of its stock offering and debt offering…
Another Shipping Bankruptcy Filing Could Signal More on the Way (GMR, ONAVQ, TNK, OSG, NAT, FRO, NM, DRYS)
An over-supply of product leading to a steep drop in price has claimed another victim. No, this is not a story about a solar PV maker, but about shipping, where ships that were ordered…
Rising Protests Unsettle India’s Nuclear Energy Expansion Plans
International nuclear energy firms have fanned out across the globe since the 11 March Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan to drum up new business, with two of their most lucrative potential markets being the…
Upside Potential at Big Oil Companies (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, OXY, MRO, APA, PBR)
As the price differential between WTI and Brent crude oil continues to narrow, with WTI rising and Brent falling, big oil companies should see a gain in their realized prices for crude. This is especially true…
Another Bioenergy Company Joins Crowded IPO Queue (CDXS, AMRS, GEVO, SZYM, KIOR, PALG)
The last year or so has been good for IPOs in the biofuel and bioenergy sector. Beginning with Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) in 2010, four other companies have successfully issued stock this year: Amyris…
Pipeline Reverses Refiners Fortunes… An Apparent Overreaction (ENB, COP, VLO, MPC, TSO, WNR, CVI, XOM, CVX, BP, EPD, TRP, RDS-A)
The announcement from Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) that it would acquire the 50% stake in the Seaway pipeline system owned by ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP) and reverse the pipeline’s flow direction, pushed up the…
U.S. Asks for Higher MPG as Oil Prices Rise
The Obama administration has begun to push the car industry to double the average MPG each company’s fleet gets by 2025. That would push the number to 54.5 MPG, a figure unimaginable based on…
Oil Pushes Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Peers Higher
One beneficiary, and there are few, of a spike in the price of crude is the large oil companies, including their shareholders. The share price of Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is up by 6%…
The Return of $100 Crude… Gas Prices at the Pump Going Up (USO, OIL, OIH, XOP, BNO)
Europe is on the verge of suffering a debt crisis, economic data remains very choppy, and the argument is still going on over whether the U.S. will fall into a new recession or not. …
Anadarko Discovery and American Energy Independence
The more that conservationists and politicians talk about fossil energy alternatives, the more oil and coal the nation’s energy companies find. The discoveries will not go on forever, but the U.S. is probably more…
Solar Prices Continue to Batter Industry (JKS, FSLR, TSL, JASO, STP, LDK, SPWRA, WFR, SRE)
China’s JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) has from its beginnings been viewed as a low-cost provider of solar PV panels. Unfortunately, competition in the sector has brought every other solar maker down into…
Enterprise Still Looking Like a Long-Term Win (EPD, CHK, EEP, APC, AMJ, KYN)
Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD) is winning in part from an analyst research call and mostly on its own merits. While the MLP has stalled out in the last couple of weeks, the MLP…
US Takes Up Solar Makers’ Case Against China (FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, JASO, LDK, RSOL)
The US Department of Commerce has begun its investigation of a trade complaint accusing Chinese makers of solar PV modules of dumping their goods on the US market at less than the cost of…