Chesapeake's Cutback of Natural Gas Expenditures
Note: This is an updated version of a post from earlier this week. Some more recent quotes have been added at the end of this post ... cost of producing- to currently above the price of natural gas futures. While shutting ... At $100 Oil, What Can the Scientist Say to the Investor? The Energy Return on Time Peak Oil - Why [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 20:12:34
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Crude Oil Industry Headline News
"Smart Money Moves Back into Energy, But Carefully"A pair of deals by Oklahoma billionaire George B ... Story"Crude Hits One-Month Highs on Gas Spat Jitters"Crude oil futures climbed more than $2 to above ... natural gas flows to Europe could spark an increased demand for oil....Complete Story"Chesapeake Energy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:40:00
Green Ink: Gas Pains and Peak Coal
paper Crude oil futures hovered around $48 amid signs of tightening oil supplies and continued weak demand, Bloomberg reports ... at the compromises of Candian tar sands—plentiful crude, but bad for the environment. The week-long natural gas dispute in Russia is getting hotter, as Russia has shut off all natural-gas supplies to Ukraine [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:09:13
Green Ink: Brother, Can You Spare a Bailout?
paper Crude oil futures slipped toward $53 thanks to expectations of growing stockpiles in the U.S. and anemic demand for oil, Bloomberg reports ... s planned natural-gas pipeline could be in trouble, as plunging natural-gas prices and a slowing economy [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 13:38:50
Crude continues with its upward journey
Mid East tension takes crude higher by more than 9% in two sessionsOngoing conflicts at Middle East, ... prices higher on Monday, 05 January, 2009.On Monday, crude-oil futures for light sweet crude ... is up 11.1% and heating oil is up 9.1%.February natural-gas futures rose 1.7% to $6.072 per million British [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 03:14:00
Wall St. Extends Holiday Rally - Washington Post
Wall St. Extends Holiday Rally Washington Post, United States - 18 minutes ago Amid signs of slowing demand by industrial users, natural gas futures contracts fell 5.4 percent on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while crude oil for ... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 08:41:51
Why Are Oil and Natural Gas Prices Behaving so Similarly?
This is a question that has been bugging me for a while ... is used for heat, the price of gas is very seasonal. Here is a graph of the gas futures curve (from Nymex, December 23, 2008):Now you can see here that futures contracts for winter months are higher than [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 19:10:00
Crude Oil Industry Headline News
"Crude Oil Plunges After Report of Larger Than Expected U.S. Supply Gains"Oil futures tumbled after a U.S ... and distillate fuel....Complete Story"Gas Crisis Freezes Economies in Balkans, Turkey"Russian halted natural gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine Wednesday amid freezing winter temperatures, escalating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:45:00
Oil back above 8 on upbeat US economic data - MarketWatch
Oil back above 8 on upbeat US economic data MarketWatch - 1 hour ago December natural gas futures rose 17.3 cents, or 2.7%, to .484 per million British thermal units. Elsewhere in commodities, gold futures edged lower after ... [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 01:40:57
Green Ink: Last Act for Detroit
paper Crude oil futures retreated Tuesday to just over $52 a barrel due to unremitting signs of weak global demand, and Russia may coordinate output cuts with OPEC, Bloomberg reports. Natural gas prices will remain soft, too—a new report says gas oversupply will keep U.S. prices cheap for the next five years [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 13:16:27
What's Up, What's Down: Crude Oil Down Sharply Along with Heating Oil, RBOB, and Natural Gas
Oil and gas are down across the board, see how other commodities and currencies futures are expected to perform today, including cattle, pork, orange juice, and gold. [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 03:17:00
Technical Picture - Consolidation Ahead of FED
Stocks sold off in early trade as investors grappled with ongoing uncertainty and the threat of more losses from the financial sector, ... funds futures imply a reduction to the fed funds target rate is certain. There is currently a 66 ... in commodities such as agchem, natural gas, gold, and crude oil. Crude was up as much as 8.2% during [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 06:16:00
Technical Picture - Consolidation Ahead of FED
Stocks sold off in early trade as investors grappled with ongoing uncertainty and the threat of more losses from the financial sector, ... funds futures imply a reduction to the fed funds target rate is certain. There is currently a 66 ... in commodities such as agchem, natural gas, gold, and crude oil. Crude was up as much as 8.2% during [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 07:00:16
CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Belief in Global Warming 'Almost a Religion'
... discussed the possibility that “future regulations on greenhouse gas emissions could include what could ... explanation for climate change -- the sun’s natural cycle of sunspot activity: “There are also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 22:04:33
CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Belief in Global Warming ‘Almost a Religion’
CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Belief in Global Warming ‘Almost a Religion’ Posted by Internet Guru at January 6, 2009 [ ... future regulations on greenhouse gas emissions could include what could amount to a cow tax.” After ... the sun’s natural cycle of sunspot activity: “There are also more questions over claims [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 00:01:50
U.S Market Update
- Equity markets have begun the week in positive territory, helped by declining commodity prices. Oil futures have shed about $4/bbl and gold has fallen this morning as the dollar has firmed ... % in Chicago led by Wheat while August natural gas is off close to 5% despite the formulation [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 15:35:29
Green Ink: Oil Tanks and Science Celebrates
paper Expiring January crude oil futures nosedived Friday while February futures contracts hovered around $42, Bloomberg reports, ... oil majors drooling over Turkmenistan’s huge natural gas field can forget about it, reports the WSJ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 13:00:23
U.S. Supreme Court to determine future of Iraq’s oil funds
Plus: *2008 ends “sour” for Iraq oil, potential and roadblocks in 2009 *Natural gas loss at $15B annually *Maliki makes first premier visit to ... damage on the people of Iraq, and they should not be subjected to further harm in foreign courts as Iraq [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:15:16
Green Ink: Cheap Solar and Green Cemeteries
paper Crude oil futures rose above $48 on continued violence in Gaza, and many traders now say supply-side concerns will keep oil above $40, ... -Ukraine natural-gas dispute enters day five, with both countries trading accusations of bad behavior [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:08:15
Energy Blast - Jan 1, 2008
The natural gas dispute between Gazprom and the Ukraine is creating upward pressure on crude oil futures, along with the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Official data shows that Russian oil production [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 17:19:17
Crosstex Energy L.P. (XTEX) Streamlines for 2009, Sheds Non-core Assets to Pay Down Debt
In past natural resources posts, oil and gas exploration companies have been featured ... helping to maintain production levels. The future looks fairly bright for the company as national [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 17:04:50
What's Up, What's Down: Higher Gold Futures, Energies Sharply Lower
Major indexes on Monday continues to weave in and out of red zones following new home sales figures and continued fears of recession. Although Friday saw a higher close for gold, closes for crude and heating oil, the rbob and natural gas were sharply low. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 15:13:15
Weekly Futures Positions Review - December 21, 2008
Top posts from the past week:Inflation or Deflation - Which Will Prevail? ... Sugar CoffeeCotton Natural Gas SilverCrude OilWheatCorn Open positions Date Position [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 02:00:00
Citigroup: Gold Over $2,000, Massive Inflation, Depression, and Civil Disorder
An internal client note from Citigroup lays out what the company predicts for the world’s economic future: ... which will lead to “civil disorder” and possibly “wars”. Gold is now trading at $812 an ounce, down ... trading director at Equidex Brokerage Group Inc., claims “inflation will continue to make gold bullish” [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 06:49:25
Economic Potpourri December 13, 2008
Once again news is flying out of every corner at record speeds. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Mazama Capital assets fall 75%, but optimism holds steadyIn a year of devastating investment losses, it may comfort amateur stock pickers to know that even the pros are suffering [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 22:34:00
Green Ink: Electric Cars and Barricades
paper Crude oil futures rebounded above $50 as governments around the world suggest measures to revive demand and OPEC’s previous production cuts ... to lower the cost of energy to proposals to keep gas prices high enough to benefit alternatives, the WSJ reports (sub reqd.). In the meantime, lower gas prices are a nearly $300 billion shot in the arm [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 13:14:30
False Diagnosis of Deflation
by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter | January 2, 2009 One of the most bothersome questions from 2005 to 2007 used to be whether the Untied States would ultimately submit to inflation or deflation. This is actually the wrong question. Many analysts in my view are incorrect in their conclusion that the US suffers from a powerful deflation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 14:01:11
DrumBeat: December 29, 2008
Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third place judging by market capitalization, behind Exxon Mobil and General Electric [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30
Oil Falls below $42 a barrel
LONDON: Oil prices fell below $42 a barrel Friday after Russia and Ukraine said a dispute over natural gas payments wouldn’t affect shipments to ... , then you will see an increase in the usage of oil instead of natural gas. It will have an impact on oil prices,” ... in the oil-rich Middle East helped keep prices from falling further. Israeli troops massed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:21:38
DrumBeat: December 18, 2008
Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
Green Ink: Pricey Nukes and Supervolcanoes
paper Crude oil futures jumped above $50 after Kuwait and Qatar said they would trim January oil shipments, ... . But oil prices are still low enough to cause pain to big producers, like Venezuela, which has scrapped its $100 million heating-fuel giveaway to U.S. consumers, in the WSJ (sub reqd.). Where is Big [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:00:44
Don't Get Used to Cheap Oil.
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/All that money you're saving these days at the gas pump? You might want to put it in the bank ... , a natural resources analyst at Weiss Research Inc.High prices at the pump last summer — more than $4 per gallon for gas on average — helped slash demand for oil. From November 2007 to October 2008 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:45:00
Oil Ready For Another Big Bull Run?
Bolling: Oil Should Be in the $70-$85 Range, Buy the DipsPosted Jan 07, 2009 11:53am EST by Aaron Task in Investing, CommoditiesRelated: USO, DUG, ... futures contracts expire each month.Bolling said he will add to the USO position if/when spot crude falls ... from the different brokerage houses areall over the place. The parameters they are looking at [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 21:15:00
Oil Rises to 5-Week High Above $50 on OPEC Cuts, Russia Dispute
By Grant Smith Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose to a five-week high above $50 as Kuwait and Qatar indicated they will implement supply cuts ... percent, to $51.86 a barrel on London’s ICE Futures Europe exchange, also the highest since Dec. 1. The contract traded at $51.37 a barrel at 1:23 p.m. “Russia continues to play hardball [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:49:59
Friday's Commentary & When to Chase a Trade
Updated late Tuesday and Friday nights Friday’s Close for Jan 9th, 2008 Written by: Mike Coval It was not much different than we expected, ... out of work kept the price of Crude futures flat and trading at $40.70 a barrel. Track the price of crude with the Oil ETF, USO. Mega player Chevron, CVX, fell $1.42 after issuing a profit warning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:43:26
Oil prices slip as US unemployment jumps
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Worries about global economic growth and a U.S ... delivery was down $1 at $40.70 barrel by midday in Europe in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile ... shells."Some traders may be nervous fighting could spread," said Clarence Chu, a trader with market [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:38:00
Investing In Commodities
I was reading Larry Swedroe’s The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You’ll Ever Need the other day, ... a futures contract; however, I have been thinking about adding commodities to my overall portfolio ... There are several ways to gain exposure to commodities without the complexities of futures trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 00:28:53
DrumBeat: December 31, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest Before grappling with 2009, it might be useful to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to what lies ahead. There was a little flurry in the news last week when it was discovered that the Army War College had released a report talking about preparing for civil unrest in the U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:58:02
Stimulus suspense ends!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Most doubts on the Stimulus Package II have finally ended. The Government has announced a slew of fresh measures, aimed at putting the Indian economy back on high growth path [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 03:45:00
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
Get Ready For $2 Gas as Fuel Prices Continue to Rise
The national average price for a gallon of gasoline posted their seventh consecutive gain on Tuesday, ... to data from the Department of Energy. Futures traders were also worried about potential fallout ... gasoline prices generally lag beind oil futures which traded above $50 a barrel today, up from below $32 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:18:07
Oil Slick: Will OPEC Production Cuts Go Too Far?
OPEC seems serious about cutting oil production to shore up prices. The risk is that, for once, the oil cartel will be too successful ... Intermediate crude oil futures. In recent days, a spate of OPEC members have publicized their lower ... says, noting that for the first time ever, lower-quality OPEC oil is trading at parity with higher [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:37:10
Retail gasoline prices drift to 58-month low
Retail gasoline prices tumbled Friday to the lowest level in nearly five years ... . And while crude futures rose, analysts believed it was a temporary pause in an extended, downward arc as the recession spreads. AP Oil at 120 “We’re paying about a billion dollars per day less [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 04:46:03
Satyam's accounting fraud spooks market; Satyam plunges 78%
Just as the market was recovering somewhat, India's fourth largest IT firm Satyam Computer's explosive revelations send the Sensex on a southward spiral. Satyam shares plunged a whopping 77.69% as chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after announcing during trading hours today, 7 January 2009, that the company's accounts were inflated artificially [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:26:00
Sensex down 9% in two days as Satyam scandal rattles investor confidence
A massive accounting scandal at IT major Satyam Computer and caution ahead of the US non-farm payroll data for December 2008, pulled the market down for the second day in a row. IT pivotals surged as investors churned portfolio after Satyam's scandal. FMCG stocks gained on defensive buying even as realty and metal stocks fell. Volatility was high [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:37:00
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