25 Ways To Invest In Crude Oil
Crude oil has been in the limelight in recent weeks, as its priced surged from a low of $75 barrel to break through the century mark, marking an increase of over 35%. While oil has long been, arguably,...
View ArticleThe World’s 5 Largest Oil Consumers
Crude oil is an addiction that our global economy will not be able to break anytime soon. The fossil fuel is involved in many facets of our everyday lives whether we realize is it or not, and demand...
View ArticleU.S. to Top Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production
Saudi Arabia has long been known as the world’s most dominant producer of crude oil, as the Middle East is rich with deposits of this fossil fuel. But the growth and rapid development of U.S. crude...
View Article10 Ways to Invest in Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has become tremendously popular in the United States and Canada over the past couple of years. By pumping pressurized fluid into a wellbore the process enables...
View ArticleHow To Profit From Record U.S. Oil Production
Since the 2008 recession, U.S. oil production has come roaring back. As 2013 opened, the United States topped seven million barrels per day in production for the first time in nearly 20 years. This is...
View ArticleEarnings Preview: Weyerhaeuser (WY) & Halliburton (HAL)
With the fourth quarter’s earning season in full swing now, investors have, for the most part, been pleasantly surprised. Though many companies have exceeded expectations, earnings estimates for...
View ArticleBP’s Stock Struggles Amid Key Trial
In early 2010, British Petroleum (BP) was at the center of one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, as an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig caused millions of gallons of oil to flow into the...
View ArticleBig Oil Earnings to Dominate This Week
Crude oil has been among the worst-performing commodities this year as hefty production has combined with a number of other factors to send the fossil fuel lower. That being said, a number of...
View ArticleFracking: The Modern Day Gold Rush
First developed in 1947, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) remained an unheard-of tactic for extraction until it was used in the Barnett Shale Basin in 1998. The process works by pumping fracturing...
View ArticleMajor Commodity Earnings This Week: FCX, HAL, VLO
As we enter the trenches of earnings season, investors and analysts alike are taking cues from today’s leading companies on where the economy is headed. Thus far, it seems that the results have been a...
View ArticleQ2 Earnings Scorecard: Commodity Stock Hits And Misses
2013′s second quarter earnings season was perhaps not what many analysts had expected, as companies across all sectors reported both hits and misses. In the commodity space, Alcoa had set the tone for...
View ArticleMajor Commodity Earnings This Week: A Bit of Everything
As we make our way into the last quarter of the year, the eyes of investors and analysts turn to the performance of the most recent quarter. Q3 earnings season is upon us and has opened up with gloomy...
View ArticleQ3 Earnings Scorecard: Commodity Stock Hits And Misses
2013′s third quarter earnings season was perhaps not what many analysts had expected, as companies across all sectors reported both hits and misses. In the commodity space, Alcoa had set the tone for...
View Article2 Commodity Stocks To Buy On The Dip: APA, HAL
Uncertainty may have been a central theme on Wall Street all year, but when all was said and done, it was undeniable that the bulls prevailed on the equity front. Bears, however, ripped through...
View ArticleCommodity Earnings on Tap: SLB, HAL, FCX
With Alcoa (AA) kicking off earnings season last week, investors will spend the next little while combing through quarterly statements from their favorite commodity firms. Alcoa reported a fourth...
View Article2 Commodity Stocks to Buy on the Dip: PXD, HAL
The bears finally got their way in 2014. Rampant selling pressures have rattled investors’ confidence on Wall Street amid sluggish data releases on both sides of the Atlantic, coupled with fiscal and...
View ArticleQ4 2013 Earnings Scorecard: Commodity Stock Hits and Misses
2013′s fourth quarter earnings season saw companies across all sectors reporting both hits and misses. Alcoa set the tone for the commodity space, reporting a fourth quarter net loss of $2.3 billion...
View ArticleCommodity Stock in Focus: Halliburton Company (HAL)
The oil and gas industry has seen rapid growth in recent years, primarily due to new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as well as continued expansion in deepwater drilling. Though...
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