The United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG) is disclosing some current and future changes to its investment vehicle strategy in its attempt to manage its size and to track the price moves of natural…
Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is showing that wind energy is not as dead as many might have you believe. This morning the company issued a press release showing that wind power orders are still…
If a very minor recovery in the global economy pushes oil back toward $75, what will a robust expansion do? Crude moved to $73.79 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The reason for the rise…
The solar sector appears to be lightly benefiting from California legislation efforts that would secure above market rates as a feed-in tariff for small solar power generators. California already has mandates calling for larger…
The government is putting part of its $787 billion stimulus package into alternative energy and improving the infrastructure of the energy grid. Private foundations have started to put money into green energy initiatives in…
Commodities prices are supposed to give some sign of inflation although the value of the dollar, spot demand for certain metal and agricultural products, or the kind of feeding frenzy driving up gold can…
The car industry is going green by rapidly developing hybrids and electric cars. Residential and commercial building are adding solar panels. The last place that most people would expect a systematic effort to improve…
Maybe higher oil prices keep begetting higher rig counts. Baker Hughes, Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its weekly rig counts and there are gains in all three measures. We have been watching the Oil Services…
The top global banking associations and economist have a broad spread of expectations about what worldwide GDP growth will be in 201o. The IEA has raised its GDP forecast and along with it the forecast…
One of the greatest hedge fund managers in history, Jim Rogers, insists that oil will move above $200 at some point during the bull market. He also sees the coming bubble in Treasuries bursting…
Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE: KSS) hit a yearly high of $58.03 after Morgan Stanley upgraded the department store operator from “equal weight” to “overweight”. MV Oil Trust (NYSE: MVO) hit a yearly high after the…
ConocoPhillipsConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is trying to further adopt shareholder-friendly strategies with a higher payout and lower expenses. With as much as this stock has lagged some peers until recently, that should be of little…
The Department of Energy gave some critical data in its weekly oil inventories. Frankly, you can make a bullish case here and a bearish case as well. The drop in crude oil came to…
Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) rallied over 4% to a yearly high of $97.36 following news that it had gained government approval on contracts to supply 50 million cubic feet of natural gas per day…
If any ethanol is supposed to be feasible, it is cellulosic ethanol. One player in that sub-sector is Verenium Corp. (NASDAQ: VRNMD). Unfortunately, its shares are getting crushed this morning as it has detailed…