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Can Argentina Capitalize On Its Vast Shale Reserves?

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Argentina, once a regional energy leader, is now better known for financial busts and bombastic politicians than hydrocarbons prospects. Still, with a resource potential both vast and untapped, the nation has never been far from energy investors’ minds. The question today is just how much Argentina is willing to change and how this plays into a low oil price environment that is already negatively impacting investment elsewhere.

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3 Reasons Silver Might Be a Good Bet Now

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If you are looking to expand your investment portfolios and invest in some commodities, silver can be an excellent option. This metal offers considerable promise for both the most experienced investor looking to increase their assets and the curious newbie just beginning to develop an investment strategy. Many investors appreciate the security that precious metals, such as gold and silver, can offer, making them popular options. Silver in particular, however, has shown considerable promise, making it worthwhile for investors to take a careful look at this metal.

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Gold Up Almost Everywhere in 2014

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When looking at prices of anything from cars to oil to gold or stocks… we need to keep in mind our personal frame of reference. We see prices as they are priced in our currency i.e. the currency that we earn in. International companies are especially aware of this as their income can be in one currency while their expenses are in another.

Using a U.S. centric frame of reference we might think that gold didn’t perform very well in 2014 but people from the rest of the world would disagree. Today, Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research looks at the effects of currencies on the price of gold. ~Tim McMahon, editor.

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Driving Down Oil Prices Just to Hurt Russia is “Simplistic”

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In the global chess game of energy politics every move affects more than a single opponent and the effects of low oil prices are not equally distributed. Some countries will be hurt by low prices more than others. Who will lower oil prices hurt more, Russia, Syria, Iran, Venezuela… the U.S. ? In today’s article, Andrew Topf of Oilprice.com looks at some of the background and cause and effect of lower energy prices.

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Why Russia is Unfazed by Falling Oil Prices

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In recent posts we’ve told you about Russia Eying Crimea’s Oil and Gas Reserves and about the Total War over the Petrodollar and More on the PetroDollar and we’ve considered why the recent OPEC meeting maintained production in spite of declining prices rather than cutting production to keep prices up as they’ve done in the past. There has been some speculation that falling oil prices would hurt Russia (and a variety of other energy producers like U.S. natural producers, wild-catters, small production companies, etc.).

But in today’s article Marin Katusa takes a look at the flip side of falling oil prices and Russia’s resilience. ~Tim McMahon, editor.

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