With Iran waxing belligerent again, oil has been making headlines lately. Stock speculators and investors are anxiously watching its price, gaming how oil stocks are likely to react to various oil-price scenarios.
Crude Oil & Energy Reports & Analysis
Energy is the ultimate form of currency. This section includes market reports and analysis of Crude Oil (Black Gold), Natural Gas, Solar, Coal, Hydro-Electric, Wind, and Uranium.
The recent recession-fear craze hammered commodities prices, crushing the stocks of the companies that produce them. Commodities stocks were wholesale abandoned by frightened traders, left bludgeoned and bleeding.
The grinding 6-week-old bottoming process following the stock-market correction is doing its job, shaking out all the weak hands.
Averaging $96 so far this summer, crude oil certainly doesn't feel cheap. Nevertheless, its technicals are looking increasingly bullish.
Oil stocks have to be one of the most unloved sectors in the markets today.
Oil stocks have been hammered especially hard in the recent stock-market correction. With both the general stock markets and price of crude oil falling sharply, the oil stocks didn't stand a chance.
Last week looked and felt like a pivotal week for both stocks and commodities. The past two weeks have had investors and traders in a panic as they try to find safe investments for their money.
Last week was nothing special as stock market continued to drift higher on light volume and the Volatility Index (VIX) reaching a new multi year low.
How to trade hot commodities like natural gas, oil and gold - We should see big moves in the coming weeks as gas bottoms, and oil & gold breakout or breakdown.
Last week gold and silver remained in a trading range moving sideways, while crude oil had a large pullback on very heavy volume.
Over the past several weeks, oil and gas prices have fallen sharply, prompting many to conclude that the bull market has finally run its course.
The conflict with Iran over their advancing nuclear program has moved gradually toward severe escalation. Iran's insistence to develop uranium enrichment facilities creates a supply fork.
The world of energy has many faces in the past two years. As the Middle East and Caspian Region encounter growing US Military presence, alliances have formed and are solidifying along the periphery.
My greatest fear is that the USGovt and US Fed will actively pursue and promote a recession in order to prevent ongoing energy demand from creating a series of oil price spikes. Recession uses less oil than war!!!
Of the various vulnerabilities traditional financial assets are exposed to, a rising oil price is of particular concern.
It wasn’t many weeks ago that it looked like the world oil price would be hitting $60 bbl.
In the six years since the Internet has really taken off and begun to grow popular amongst the general populace, there has been a mighty explosion in the amount of information available.
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