Over the last few years, stock in the Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., or Petrobras (PBR), has confounded those who track traditional measures…
The last month or two have seen energy stocks, and oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) stocks in particular, become the victims of a…
In an interview this week with the Guardian newspaper, India’s power and coal minister, Piyush Goyal, claimed that India would become a “renewable superpower” in…
As the world continues to recover from the recession of 2008-09, those who depend on their investments for income have faced a challenge. Central banks…
Earlier this week, one of the largest pension funds in America, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) made an announcement that was of particular…
If nearly 20 years in dealing rooms around the world taught me anything, it’s that traders, and therefore markets, have a tendency to overreact. When…
As an Englishman, when I moved to the U.S. more than 10 years ago, two things struck me almost immediately. I was stunned by just…
As I advance in years I find that, unlike many people, fewer things make me angry. I guess I am just coming to terms with…
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) is one of those companies that just don’t seem to be able to get out of their own way. They have been…
I am not one to baffle with overly technical analysis when it comes to charts. To me, the more obvious the pattern or point is,…
I have been contributing here for about six months and in that time I have covered most aspects of the energy markets, with one glaring…
It is generally accepted that in the U.S. – and increasingly, worldwide -- oil is a booming business. Over the last six months, the SPDR®…
I am, as regular readers may have gathered, somewhat of a contrarian by nature. I put that down to nearly twenty years in currency dealing…
Stop a dozen people on the street and ask them what the biggest challenge facing alternative energy is, and most would probably answer along the…
For more than seventy years the oil reserves of Mexico have been the exclusive property of the state run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.…
It is no secret that, since I first started contributing here, I have been somewhat bearish on the price of oil, or more specifically on…
Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m stumped. Broadwind Energy (BWEN) has been on my radar for a while, so I was interested to see what Thursday…
There now seems to be general consensus amongst the United States and many European nations regarding the actions of the Putin regime in Eastern Ukraine…
Ah, myths, urban legends and conspiracy theories -- don’t you just love ‘em? Still, you would think that in this day and age, when information…
In these days of ultra-low interest rates, investors who are looking for or need income from their portfolios are struggling. A roughly 2.5 percent yield…