Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Crypto Fund Lost $272.7 Million in 2018 (CoinDesk) Galaxy Digital Holdings, the crypto merchant bank founded by former hedge...
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April 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
According to a new report from research firm IHS Global Insights, the world may be on the verge of a shale energy boom. But before investors get too excited...
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September 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
Photo credit: Anadarko. Production from legacy oil wells is declining each year. At the same time, demand from emerging markets is rising rapidly. When...
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September 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
Like it or not, climate change and society’s attempts to constrain it have a growing impact on companies’ bottom lines. Nowhere is that more...
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September 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
Photo credit: Apache (NYSE:APA) With its growth options in the U.S. once limited, Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) turned its sights overseas. Over the...
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September 17 - Commodities, News - Comments
In May, I announced my intention to create a portfolio that embodied life’s basic needs. Understandably, many of the truly basic needs in our...
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September 17 - News - Comments
As last week neared its conclusion, Transocean LTD (NYSE:RIG) CFO Esa Ikaheimonen stood before analysts at Barclay’s CEO Energy-Power Conference...
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September 16 - Commodities, News - Comments
PVR Partners LP (NYSE:PVR)’ pipeline business has ramped up more slowly than expected this year. However, management believes pipeline volumes...
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September 16 - Commodities, News - Comments
Back in April, BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP) announced that it was putting its U.S. wind power assets up for sale, in an effort to focus on its more profitable...
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September 16 - News - Comments
On Wednesday, Sept. 4, an email sent out by research firm Hedgeye, along with the author’s comments on Twitter , caused shares of Kinder Morgan...
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September 16 - News - Comments
Seven years and $24 billion. No, that isn’t the price tag for a major project coming online. That’s how late and how much over budget the...
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September 15 - Commodities, News - Comments
Nearly every company develops a reputation. Sometimes it helps the company, and sometimes it hurts. When that reputation comes into question, though,...
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September 13 - Commodities, News - Comments
As global economies continue to grow, so does the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for energy. Especially in the emerging markets, where economies...
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September 13 - Commodities, News - Comments
Share buybacks are one of the main way’s management teams return cash to shareholders. Share repurchases serve a variety of purposes. First, it&#...
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September 12 - Commodities, News - Comments
Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES) is sometimes grouped with the likes of Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) and ConocoPhillips...
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September 12 - News - Comments
If collaborating with the disputed Falkland Islands’ government wasn’t adventurous enough, Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NBL) has been working...
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September 11 - News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/David-O California’s Monterey shale is believed to hold 15 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. To put that in perspective...
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September 11 - Gold, News - Comments
The price of crude oil has spiked on the back of growing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. As a result oil stocks are bouncing back into favor...
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September 11 - News - Comments
Over the past five years, oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has paid its shareholders $44 billion in dividends. Going back even further...
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September 10 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Photo credit: Devon Energy China has a bold goal to produce 6.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas from shale by 2015. As big as that number sounds,...
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September 10 - News - Comments
In May, I announced my intention to create a portfolio that embodied life’s basic needs. Understandably, many of the truly basic needs in our...
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September 10 - News - Comments
Exploring for new sources of oil and gas is an inherently risky and expensive venture. That’s why Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) really deserves...
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September 9 - News - Comments
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable...
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September 6 - News - Comments
While much of the nation’s attention seems to be focused on the fracking moratorium in New York state, investors would be wise to keep an eye on...
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September 6 - Commodities, News - Comments
Last quarter Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) made $6.9 billion. That’s more money than most of us can even fathom. What’s really incredible...
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September 5 - News - Comments
Take a chart of the S&P 500’s performance over the first half of this year and compare it to the performance of oil behemoths Chevron Corporation...
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September 5 - News - Comments
Life isn’t always easy for the integrated major oil companies, and this past quarter was evidence of that. With foreign oil prices slipping while...
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September 4 - News - Comments
For some reason, the oil market is always spoken of in hyperbolic terms. A pending dispute between two nations can double oil prices within a matter of...
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September 4 - News - Comments
Photo credit: Flickr/Tax Credits. The word “lobbying” makes the majority of Americans cringe, or roll their eyes, or just sadly shake their...
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September 3 - News - Comments
Natural gas prices remain low in the United States, and that’s meant pain for energy majors that have made domestic natural gas a strategic priority...
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September 2 - Commodities, News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes — just in case...
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August 29 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 29 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 29 - News - Comments
Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock’s current yield, but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends. That...
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August 29 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
The ‘king of oil,’ Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has embarked on an aggressive strategy to beef up its unconventional oil assets while...
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August 29 - News - Comments
The hour of reckoning that will bring with it a military confrontation between the U.S. and Syria’s Assad regime — and even more dauntingly...
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August 28 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 28 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 28 - News - Comments
Among the major integrated oil and gas companies, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM)’s return on capital employed is industry-leading. This lead...
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August 28 - Commodities, News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 27 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 27 - News - Comments
On this day in economic and business history… Aug. 27 is one of the most important days in the history of the energy industry for two reasons: coal...
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August 27 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 27 - Commodities, News - Comments
Investors eyeing Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ:HERO) to be one of their portfolio champions could very well be looking in the right direction. The...
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August 27 - News - Comments
In May, I announced my intention to create a portfolio that embodied life’s basic needs. Understandably, many of the truly basic needs in our...
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August 27 - News - Comments
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case...
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August 26 - News - Comments
A ratio for this, a metric for that. All told, there are hundreds of ways of multiplying or dividing a couple numbers from a company’s financial...
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August 26 - Commodities, News - Comments
I recently explained that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has nine stocks that are considered dividend aristocrats, defined as having paid an annually...
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August 26 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Photo credit: ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) Despite some fairly large onshore acquisitions over the past few years, big oil has largely remained on the sidelines...
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August 23 - News - Comments
The frenetic activity surrounding earnings season has come and gone. From my perspective, perhaps the overarching takeaway from the results reported by...
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August 22 - News - Comments
