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The Speculative Downside of Gold

We may shortly be at the beginning of Jimmy Carter’s second presidency. After “windfall taxes” have made a populist return, will we see 14% inflation and record gold prices again? Click here to view… Read more

Is Exxon’s (XOM) 9% margin “windfall profits”? Then what about the 2,300 companies making 10% and more?

For Obama and others unfamiliar with the term “margins,” the profits recently reported by Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) may indeed look high. No wonder liberals would like oil company investors to buy their candidate’s presidency. Click here to view… Read more

Commodities plunge: Is the hard asset bubble over?

Commodities have fallen dramatically. Yet each price chart indicates that there’s plenty of value still to be shed just to erase the gains of 2008! Read more

Crude oil and gold prices plummet: This is the time to get cautious about Dollar Bears and Hard Money bulls

Crude oil prices have dropped below $115. Gold is down $130 in less than two weeks. For dollar bears and goldbugs, this is th time to exercise caution! by J. Christoph Amberger Baltimore — (TFN): “Bad news from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline - an installation that may not normally draw much of your attention,” writes Martin Vander Weyer [...]

Bear Market for Crude Oil? Profit from falling oil prices.

Crude oil prices have dropped dramatically from record highs. What was behind the boom? What is ahead for oil? And how can you profit? Hot Stock Confidential’s J. Christoph Amberger answers all questions. Read more    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Volatility in crude oil prices is good for U.S. refinery shares

Recent volatility in crude oil prices has exposed the dangers for investors with overweight commodities bubble portfolios. But lower prices are good news for U.S. refiners. We have our eye on one particular company. Click here to view… Read more    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Financial Predictions: Why you should ignore them

The world was supposed to be out of oil by 1952, natural gas was to have run out by 1984, gold by 1981. And what happened to the ozone shield and global cooling? Their lousy track record makes your local weatherman look like a genius. So why listen to scientist and resource forecasters at all? By [...]

Editor’s .PIC: Key commodities are turning down

Baltimore — (TFN): Turn on the television or radio, and you could think that the United States is about to embark on a collective dandelion-leaf-and-sawdust diet. But a look at the price charts for key commodities indicates that spot prices for wheat and corn are either leveling out or dropping. The Prices of Key Commodities in [...]

Oil Price Volatility: Profit from the fluctuation

“Gas consumption continues to rise. So how can you profit from these divergent moves in energy markets? Easier than ever before actually!” — Mike Burnick by Mike Burnick Baltimore – (TFN): Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy reported the biggest BUILD in crude oil supplies in a decade, indicating [...]

Oil Price: “This is a bubble and it will burst.”

Baltimore — (TFN): Doubling from $50 to over $100 per barrel within less than a year, oil prices left behind the comforting equations of supply and demand and appear to have entered the rarefied spheres previously reserved for Internet start-ups selling sock puppets of dogs and vinyl-sided "luxury townhomes" squeezed four to a half acre [...]