After a lengthy stretch of outperformance, small-cap stocks suffered from July 2015 through June 2016, as heightened global economic fears led investors to flee to the safe havens...
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December 16 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Crude futures are 1.5% in the red today as the traders factor in future Federal Reserve interest rate hikes into the commodity's price.
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August 29 - Market Movers, News - Comments
After rallying above $41 per barrel, crude futures are once again below the water-line as traders brace for today's rig count report.
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July 29 - Earnings Report, Market Movers, News - Comments
The markets have opened higher on Wednesday as investors evaluate the slew of earnings reports inundating the market and await word from the Federal Reserve on rate hike and the...
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July 27 - Market Movers, News - Comments
It's been a quiet morning on Wall Street so far, with the Dow and S&P coming out flat out of the gate and the NASDAQ Composite index up just 14 points.
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May 23 - Market Movers, News - Comments
Production from legacy oil wells is declining each year. At the same time, demand from emerging markets is rising rapidly.
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September 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
At the moment, there are plenty of gauges shareholders can use to monitor the equity markets. A duo of the most innovative are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.
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September 17 - News - Comments
To the average investor, there are a multitude of methods shareholders can use to monitor stocks. A duo of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading interest.
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September 12 - News - Comments
Over the next five years, the offshore drilling services market is expected to grow from $73.1 billion in 2013 to $121.1 billion by 2018.
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September 11 - News - Comments
While I was in Stavanger, Norway during a recent vacation, Statoil ASA (ADR) (NYSE:STO), the Norwegian-controlled oil company, was making news, selling some of its North Sea interests...
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September 10 - News - Comments
It's not very often that we see a company like Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) earnings drop by 57% from the previous year.
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September 10 - News - Comments
Shifting regulatory sands are generating tremors beneath the extractive industry's once solid ground, and some companies are running scared.
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September 5 - News - Comments
The bulls have lost their grip over the past trading week as Fed tapering fears have stolen the headlines, opening the doors to volatile trading.
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September 3 - Commodities, News - Comments
To the average investor, there are dozens of metrics investors can use to monitor stocks. A duo of the most under-the-radar are hedge fund and insider trading interest.
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August 30 - News - Comments
On the surface Whiting Petroleum Corp (NYSE:WLL)'s $260 million acquisition of 17,282 net acres in the Bakken looks like nothing more than a small bolt-on acquisition.
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August 29 - News - Comments
It's "old" news that the Bakken Shale of North Dakota is an oil producer's dream.
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August 23 - Commodities, News - Comments
In the eyes of many market players, hedge funds are seen as delayed, outdated investment tools of a forgotten age.
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August 23 - News - Comments
TOTAL S.A. (ADR) (NYSE:TOT) is one of the most popular foreign oil stocks among U.S. investors.
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August 22 - News - Comments
One of the things I really like to do is bury myself in market analysis.
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August 8 - News - Comments
Oil has surely had a tough year.
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August 7 - News - Comments
Norway's state-owned oil giant Statoil ASA(ADR) (NYSE:STO) reported its second-quarter financial results on July 25.
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July 31 - News - Comments
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC) is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world, and the second-largest U.S.
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July 29 - News - Comments
Over the past year and a half, Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) has been busy selling some of its assets as the Houston-based company aims to improve its balance sheet and ...
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July 25 - News - Comments
On June 28, the Shah Deniz gas field consortium in Azerbaijan awarded the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) the privilege of delivering the newly tapped gas supply to Europe. If...
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July 16 - News - Comments
For years, natural gas has been a relatively regional product, and producers that had access to major markets via pipelines were the only game in town.
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July 9 - News - Comments
Eni SpA (ADR) (NYSE:E) was in 6 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of March. E has experienced a decrease in support from the world's most elite money managers recently.
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June 27 - News - Comments
According to estimates by the US Geological Survey, the Arctic may account for roughly one-fifth of global undiscovered oil and gas reserves and may also contain sizable mineral...
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June 24 - News - Comments
It may be a matter of months before production in the Eagle Ford shale play catches up to its Bakken cousin.
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June 24 - News - Comments
Is Sasol Limited (ADR) (NYSE:SSL) the right investment to pursue these days? The best stock pickers are taking a pessimistic view.
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June 21 - News - Comments
After finding one of the biggest natural-gas discoveries in the Rovuma Basin on the east coast of Africa, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC) made a wise decision to take...
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June 18 - News - Comments
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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June 18 - News - Comments
Tax reform can be a powerful incentive for energy companies to increase spending on capital projects.
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June 17 - News - Comments
In the search for investment opportunities in the oil and gas business, I came across Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO), the Norwegian integrated energy company.
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June 12 - News - Comments
In the eyes of most traders, hedge funds are assumed to be underperforming, outdated financial tools of years past.
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June 10 - News - Comments
If you'd ask most stock holders, hedge funds are viewed as slow, old financial vehicles of the past.
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June 3 - News - Comments
For me, the three countries that came to mind were (1) Saudi Arabia, (2) Russia, and (3) China.
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May 29 - News - Comments
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is the world's largest publicly traded company and it continues to offer a lot of value to investors.
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May 28 - News - Comments
Back in March, this is exactly what happened... in England. In a single day, natural gas prices spiked by 50% there, all because of a failed water pump.
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May 28 - News - Comments
Ever since the 1958, the United States has consumed more crude oil than it could produce domestically.
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May 28 - News - Comments
Is Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) an exceptional investment today? Investors who are in the know are taking an optimistic view.
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May 23 - News - Comments
For the first time ever, carbon dioxide sensors in Hawaii reported that the average daily reading of carbon dioxide concentration surpassed 400 parts per million.
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May 20 - News - Comments
The Bakken Shale – a vast formation underlying parts of North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota – has taken the U.S. by storm.
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May 14 - News - Comments
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), the world's largest publicly traded oil company, recently announced that it's beginning development of a major ultra-deepwater project -- the...
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May 12 - News - Comments
One of the most prominent developments in the oil industry over the past several years has been the large-scale shift toward unconventional sources of supply.
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May 5 - News - Comments
The oil industry seems to be constantly undervalued. Many of the large companies in this space produce massive amounts of revenue and trade at low multiples.
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April 24 - News - Comments
Since 2013 started, I have been recommending. As a matter of fact, I made myself a shareholder.
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April 23 - News - Comments
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are plenty of methods shareholders can use to track the equity markets.
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April 16 - News - Comments
Over the past decade, no state has grown faster than North Dakota. It leads in GDP growth and personal income growth, and it has a wide lead in oil production growth.
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April 14 - News - Comments
In today’s marketplace, there are a multitude of indicators shareholders can use to watch publicly traded companies.
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April 14 - News - Comments