By Jeff Clark, Casey Research Europe owns a sizable chunk of the world’s natural resources. Over the past few decades, however, EU countries have mostly imported their resources. Outlandish? Maybe. But it was simply easier, cheaper, and most importantly it avoided most environmental conflicts. Getting through government regulation and facing off eco-friendly groups is a […]
Editor’s Note: Copper is an industrial metal on the opposite end of the spectrum from Gold. People rush to gold as a store of wealth, when they fear paper assets. Copper on the other hand is an industrial commodity that’s price goes up when the economy is booming. Increasing demand for copper means things are
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High Yield Bonds Many investors who are tired of the fluctuations and whims of the stock market find their way over to the bond market. A bond is a type of debt security issued by a company or Government agency. The nice thing about Investing in bonds is that you know exactly how much money you will
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Today’s investing environment provides a wide variety of opportunities for smaller investors. Among them is the availability for smaller investors to participate in the oil futures market. This has come about due to the creation of the E-mini contract. E-minis are futures contracts that represent a fraction of the value of normal futures contracts. E-mini contracts
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How is the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Progressing? Four and a half years of studies and five failed votes in the House later, exactly where are we with the Keystone XL Oil pipeline? Stuck on the US-Canadian border where it is likely to remain until mid-2013 despite the headline-grabbing issuance of one of three permits to
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OIL: Iran Hunting for Dragons in the Caspian Sea By. Daniel Graeber of Oilprice.com Iran announced this week that it’s made its first oil discovery in the Caspian Sea in more than 100 years. The semiofficial Fars News Agency reports the find, in ultradeep waters, may hold the equivalent of 7 percent of the country’s
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Students with a small amount of savings on the side might want to consider putting their nest egg in secure investments so that it grows over time. A savings account from a bank will hardly accrue any interest, and a CD will often yield little more. The obvious choices left are stocks and bonds, two of
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Why Are We Certain that Gold Producers Will Soar? By Jeff Clark, Casey Research For the past eighteen months, gold stocks have been pummeled. They showed some life from mid-May to mid-June – GDX, the gold miner’s index, was up 21%, while gold rose 5.5%. That bounce was exciting, but they’ve still got a lot
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Editor’s Note: It is always a good idea to look at charts one or more levels bigger than the time frame that you are trading. If you are trading short term (scalping) minute by minute look at the hourly and daily charts. If you are day trading by the hour look at the daily
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They say, “politics makes strange bedfellows” and nowhere is that more apparent than in the middle east. Oil and the massive investment returns it can bring can turn friends into enemies and enemies into friends in rather short order. Up until recently Turkey has been at odds with the Kurds in Northern Iraq but all that is
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