By Commodities Now US oil refining capacity increased to its highest level in nearly three decades during 2010, but refining operations remain well below historical highs seen in the 1990s, according to the Energy Information...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams (Guest Post) As you might know, the two major political parties in the US are fighting over a non-existent problem regarding a procedural vote in Congress related to the ability of the US government to...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News (Guest Post) The past week in monetary policy was dominated by Asian central banks, with the central banks of Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and South Korea all announcing interest rate decisions. The...
Read Morevia Commodities Now (Guest Post) While the party continues for gold bullion prices, stocks of gold companies have been a no-show. Both the NYSE Arca Gold Bugs Index (HUI) has the Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index (XAU)...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) Even good mutual fund managers can have bad quarters. Such was the case last quarter for Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme (FAIRX), which ranked among the worst-performing domestic stock funds...
Read MoreBy Commodities Now (Guest Post) The dark cloud over the US economy has had a small silver lining for commodity prices in the form of renewed expectations of yet another bout of quantitative easing from the Fed and a lower...
Read MoreBy Mark J. Perry (Guest Post) June’s employment report from the BLS was pretty bleak, with only 57,000 new private sector jobs added, bringing the unemployment rate up to 9.2% last month, the highest level since last...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen (Guest Post) The past couple months (May and June) have been tough on precious metals and crude oil. But recent price action shows that buyers are stepping back into the market buying up these commodities once...
Read MoreCommodities, stocks climbed, and gold also jumped to a record near $1,590 an ounce after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in his testimony to Congress, said the Fed was ready to inject more stimulus if the economy...
Read More(Guest Post) Like any classic hero, the Internet grew from humble beginnings as a tiny speck to become the legend that it is today. The very first “instant message” wasn’t even a whole word before it broke the...
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