All Entries in the "Energy" Category
China’s Insatiable Demand for Minerals and Oil
This article will give you a feel for why my dollars are invested in commodity stocks. China’s demand for Copper, Zinc, Nickel, Silver, Oil and don’t forget clean water will not subside in the foreseeable future. Read the Week in Review to find out which stocks are benefiting from this trend. by Joseph Kahama President [...]
The Next Big Thing – Alternative Energy
I live in Massachusetts and formerly worked for a high-tech company, so I witnessed first hand the benefits of the dot com boom. It was unbelievable as start-ups with nothing more than Power Point slides and a recognized technologist on staff were receiving multi-million dollar investments from the venture capital community. It would have been [...]
Cheap Gas Is On Its Way
The Peak Oil theory is based on the fundamental observation that the amount of oil under the ground is finite. Oil in the US peaked in 1971. This is a well-documented fact. So, it seems reasonable that other countries will also peak at some time in the future. The ramifications of this would be extremely high oil prices [...]
Navigating Thru a Trading Fiasco
Two weeks ago the Canadian government announced that it was imposing a new tax on income trusts. This announcement shocked the market and sent the Toronto Stock Exchange S&P/TSX composite index spiraling down 2.4% for the day. To put that in US terms that was the equivalent to a 300 point drop in the DOW. Billions of [...]
The Commodities Bull Market is Back
This article was updated on 11/6. So, if you read it once it is worth a second read. It was just a few short months ago many were saying the bubble had burst in commodities. First of all, I never bought into the bubble talk. How can there be a bubble in commodities - when not one of [...]
Toronto Stocks Nosedive on Trust Tax Decision
Canada is home of some of the world’s finest natural resource companies. There you will find miners of precious and base metals as well as oil and natural gas producers. Two of my largest winners this year, Falconbrige and Inco, are both Canadian base metal companies. Investors in search of big dividends often find their [...]
Can You Spell Commodity?
I am probably starting to sound like a broken record, but this is some good stuff. Jim Rogers, the man who called the commodity boom seven years ago, ”This is a great time to invest in commodities ……. Supply of things like base metals, oil and rubber is crimped after years of underinvestment in mines and oilfields [...]
The Commodity Bull Market is in its Infancy
In Ron Paul’s article from last week, he stated that he favored less taxes on everyone – rich, middle class and poor. The premise is that the money is much better utilized in our hands than by Congress. Our three options save, invest or spend – all benefit and drive our economy. The impact on savings [...]
Ask the expert: The commodity bull market
Source: Financial Times by Jim Rogers Jim Rogers has been the most prominent and consistent champion of the commodity bull market. Long before sharp price rises of commodities started to attract headlines, Mr Rogers forecast a long-term bull market for the sector. With commodity prices showing some recent weakness, Mr Rogers can answer your questions [...]
Who’s Keeping Oil Down?
Would our elected officials do such a thing? Source: Financial Sense Online by Doug Casey Which begs the question: with elections looming, might the Republicans be trying to bring down oil prices (and therefore gasoline costs) in an attempt to cull favor at the polls? While we’re generally skeptical of conspiracy theories (after all, [...]
