Author: Dian Chu

By Frank Holmes What a decade! A rapidly urbanizing global population driven by tremendous growth in emerging markets has sent commodities on quite a run over the past 10 years. If you annualize the returns since 2002, you find...

By Pinnacle Digest On Wednesday, Jan. 11, China kicked up some dust by announcing it may begin initiatives involving monetary easing. This is of great interest to our team at Pinnacle as it shows China is not going to sit idly...

By John C.K. Daly Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif...

By Energy Burrito Since some readers were flabbergasted at the omission of certain characters of Part I of this post, here are some new analogies, with the emphasis on the crude complex. Boba Fett = Somali pirates. The ultimate...

By Energy Burrito Recently I’ve been sounding like a broken record as I keep referencing how natural gas prices are re-enacting a certain scene from Star Wars. It’s the one where the Millennium Falcon is being...

By Andy Boyd The dreaded credit crunch of the past few years has the potential to repeat itself as a double-dip recession looms on the back of stark economic data and a European crisis that refuses to go away. If the...

by Ian Fraser and Anthony Harrington Emerging market equities have taken a hammering over the past 12 months, largely as a result of high inflation, high domestic interest-rates, growing uncertainty about the eurozone and, to a...

By James Picerno of The Capital Speculator The academic case for using a multi-factor model to maximize the realized equity risk premium is old news, but documenting the empirical evidence is forever new. It’s been known...