Dian L. Chu, is a market analyst at EconMatters.
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Oil is again climbing toward $100 a barrel and consumers are paying more than ever at the pump. Even natural gas prices have climbed off…
One of the things that keeps traders trading - apart from money, of course - is the power the markets have to astonish. For what…
Near-term Double TopNatural Gas closed Friday at $3.35 per mmBtu and has been on a three month downtrend from the $4 level where it put…
Portraits from the Dark Period"The price has nothing to do with a shortage of oil. There's a lot of oil on the market. It's because…
Seaway Pipeline or Garden HoseThis is hilarious if prices weren`t so damn high, but despite a robust export market for finished products, crude oil is…
The gasoline market is well supplied, but if it weren`t for gasoline exports, the united states would have much cheaper gasoline, and the economy would…
I guess the SPR Threat was politically motivatedWhen Oil and Gas prices were last at these levels President Obama utilized the threat of releasing the…
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), the world’s biggest energy company by market cap, reported its 4Q profit at a five-year high boosted by its refining…
Where are all the Gold Bugs?The decline in GDP saw gold and silver spike yesterday with the thought that the fed will still be around…
Gas Prices Pegged to Risk On TradeAs long as gas prices are pegged to the market rally in equities and the currencies in the Risk…
Energy and environment conservation has been high on every nation’s agenda probably even before the oil crisis in the 1970s. Green cars such as hybrids…
China`s 4th Quarter China`s economy grew 7.9% for the fourth quarter of 2012, signaling to some that China might be rebounding from a two-year downtrend…
The weekly EIA report came out today and one of the noteworthy data points was the Cushing, Oklahoma storage numbers. Already at a record, Cushing…
With China slowing down, and a recessionary GDP projection (below 3%) for the developed world in the next two years or so, many analysts are…
“Risk On” ModeIt is pretty obvious that there is a lot of liquidity in the system, with the Fed`s loose monetary policy, extremely low interest…
When is this country going to say enough is enough and start putting people in jail for this kind of blatant market manipulation? It is…
In a continuation of our series on the state of the oil industry we look at some of the other ramifications of what we are…
EIA Inventory DataIn analyzing the last EIA report of the year it is noteworthy that gasoline stocks really rose the last 5 weeks of the…
UBS paid $1.5 Billion for manipulating Libor, and Barclay`s already paid the piper for manipulating the Libor rate. Well, it is about time the CFTC…
People can “go green” all they want. After all, America is still the land of the free. But I just don’t recommend that investors do…
