The accompanying chart presents an 8-week analysis of global coal futures prices as a follow-up to my previous 5-month analysis last month, Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), PowerShares Global Coal ETF (PKOL), S&P 500 ETF (SPY), U.S. Natural Gas (UNG) + Oil (USO) Funds, and the Energy Sector ETF (XLE). The global price of coal is tracked by the near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Eur
The NationCap Leaders PerformIdex includes the largest market cap company from each nation which must also be over $10B U.S. Dollars in market cap to provide investors with exposure to an index of the most highly valued public companies from each nation -- combining and diversifying the benefits of existing ETFs such as iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM), and Dow Jones Global Titans (DGT).
Although Exxon Mobil (XOM) is down about 20% in the past year, it has overtaken PetroChi
Some might say that the customers are working in a way that reduce per person energy consumption. But with the level of the oil and other energies, Exxon Mobil is in a very good place to create tremendous value for investors. Having the largest market cap and private oil reserves, XOM has produced growing net income with a much lower barrel price. Exxon is actually trading around 81$ and it had traded briefly at time amount acouple of time in the last year. When you look at a chart of XOM over the DBO ETF, you clearly see that Exxon, have not acted in sync with oil prices, exept for th...
"I've always been a big fan of putting into the market on a regular basis regardless of what is happening in the overall market," explains Chuck Carlson, long considered one of the advisory industry's leading experts on dividend reinvestment plans.
Here, the editor of The DRIP Investor offers a 10-stock "autopilot" portfolio that is diversified among 10 high quality dividend-paying stocks and requiri
Oil Index at CBOE, today, shows that in order to technical analysis oil has broken the lower band of Bollinger band. When the oil prices index is currently under the lower band, it should be considered oversold as same as W%R signed.
Bespoke Investment wrote that the energy sector is now trading well below the bottom of its trading range, and only 5% of the stocks in it are trading above their 50-day moving averages.
Accordingly I expect oil prices will immediately rebound from present lows. Which one should be bought? XOM is signing that the stock is oversold. Read more at h...
Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It also engages in the manufacture of petroleum products, and transportation and sale of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company manufactures and markets commodity petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, polyethylene and polypropylene plastics, and other specialty products. Exxon Mobil also has interests in electric power generation facilities. As of December 31, 2007, it had 7744 millions of barrels of liquid proved reserves, and 32,610 billions
Don't know where the market is headed? Some people think a full blown crash is possible; some believe this is a good time to buy while others just don't know what to believe. Well, I just don't care and neither should you.
Because if you're like me, you've learned to take everything one high percentage profit trade at a time, whether you're betting on higher or lower prices. That's right, I'm talking...
Barron's magazine interviews highly-followed Goldman oil strategist Arjun Murti, who predicted the current oil "super spike" in 2004. He sees the climb peaking somewhere between $150 and $200 -- which could mean $5.75 gasoline.<!---->
Murti dismisses the notion that speculation is driving oil prices to record highs. If so, he counters, why aren't we seeing supply growth?
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the companies could deliver money to shareholders without sacrificing growth.
What happens if the oil companies start actually recognizing their good fortune -- their sustainable good fortune -- and start boosting dividends the way that Tidewater (NYSE: TDW) (Cramer's Take) did last week with its 67% hike.
Throughout this great run with oil and gas, it seems that the companies themselves haven't caught up with the good fortun...
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“Although crude oil prices are up some 30% in 2008 and gasoline is over $4 a gallon, most energy stocks have not kept pace,” notes 
