After a relatively frustrating 4th quarter for energy equipment companies, we’ll see if they now get their time in the limelight.
Natural Gas
Pondering the Big Market Call of the Next Decade…
Eight Areas With Potential To Hold Big Opportunity For The Coming Decade
Kidz Korner: Why Come Cars Don't Take Natural Gas (reprise)
Kidz Korner is a feature here on The Reformed Broker where I explain complex financial issues to kids from the neighborhood in a simple, straightforward way.
Forbes: Exxon's Nat Gas Acquisition Points the Way
Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, just slapped the global oil industry upside the head with his $41 billion deal to buy nat gas giant XTO.
Hot Links: Smart People, Natural Gas Glut & The Cupcake Bubble
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Bernanke on The Hill this Thursday. The Fed will fight back. (InvestingContrarian) Is there any truth to the monetary cycle theory? (CafeAmericain) “We have more natural gas than we know what to do with.” (Bloomberg) Paulson‘s old number 2 launched a fund that’s up 175%, what’s Paolo Pellegrini‘s outlook? (Clusterstock)…
The Trouble With "Drill, Baby, Drill"
I’m not looking to host a debate about whether or not the US should do more to encourage drilling here in America. On one side, we have the oilmen, who would look to drill enough holes to turn the entire continent into a block of Jarlsberg cheese. On the other side, there are the treehuggers who are so wrapped up in…
Droppin' Knowledge: Fadel Gheit on Oil & Gas
Now that oil prices have joined the party, I thought I’d share some of Fadel Gheit’s thoughts on the energy sector. Gheit covers oil for Oppenheimer and was ranked #3 on the list of Forbes‘ Best Brokerage Analysts for 2009. He spoke to The Energy Report last week about the energy markets: On the discrepancy between…
Hot Links: Godspeed Patrick Swayze
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… A roundup of various currency ETFs and how they’ve done as the dollar dropped (and dropped). (Bespoke) Sorkin: Obama‘s big reform speech fell on deaf ears on Wall Street yesterday. (DealBook) Fast-Forwarding Gordon Gekko. (NYT) They fired the Wells Fargo foreclosed mansion squatter. I kinda liked the gal. (Dealbreaker) A…
Kidz Korner: Why Come Cars Don't Take Natural Gas?
Kidz Korner is a feature here on The Reformed Broker where I explain complex financial issues to kids from the neighborhood in a simple, straightforward way. __________________________________________________________ Little Timmy Johnson: My mom was cursing under her breath the other day when she was filling up her car at the gas station, why was she so…
Hot Links: UNG, AT&T and Wal-Mart People
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Think bankers are in low regard now? In 16th century Holland, they were banned from the church and treated like pawnbrokers and brothel keepers. (CreditSlips) Happy bicentennial to Elbridge Gerry, the man who ran the dollar printing presses to pay for the Civil War. (NYT) Big PR problems for AT&T‘s…
