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Ray Dalio, in reference to the current financial scene, with its long period of expansion over more than a decade, has said, "This set of circumstances is unsustainable and certainly can no longer be pushed... [which] is why I believe that the world is approaching a big paradigm shift." Dali...

When there's a slide highlighting "checks and balances" in an oil producer's presentation, as seen in the appendix of EOG Resources' (EOG) 3Q19 presentation , that's probably a good sign of heightened political risk facing the energy industry. To state the obvious, election season is well und...

On Friday, November 29, the oil and natural gas futures markets hit the skids. The nearby NYMEX crude oil futures contract settled $2.94 per barrel lower on the session, and January natural gas futures plunged 22 cents per MMBtu. The price action in natural gas at the very beginning of the pea...

CONSOL Coal Resources LP ( CCR ) produces and sells high-Btu thermal coal in the Northern Appalachian Basin and the eastern United States. Thermal or steaming coal generates electricity when burned as the steam runs turbines that produce power for public electricity grids of industries that po...

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. ( CLNE ) will report its third-quarter earnings on November 12. The market's consensus is expecting a two cents per share loss for the quarter. The company provides natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicle fleets in the US and Canada. CLNE supplies renewable, c...

Ethanol is a biofuel. In the US, corn is the primary ingredient in the production of ethanol, as the US is the world's leading producer and exporter of the grain. In Brazil, sugar is the input in ethanol production for the same reason. In the United States, the ethanol market is a political ho...

By Jeff Weniger, CFA The stock market is having a moment of truth. Frequent readers of our blog may note that figure 1 looks like the chart I presented in my August post, which discussed U.S. large-cap growth stocks' 13-year bout of outperformance . Many growth stocks populate so-called...

Many factors influence the path of least resistance of asset prices. In the world of commodities, fundamental supply and demand is one of many issues that can move prices over time. Exogenous events when it comes to the weather or policy changes in leading producing or consuming nations can al...

By Michael Laitkep With Congress in session and an impeachment inquiry creating buzz on Capitol Hill, the recently renamed Energy Infrastructure Council (formerly the Master Limited Partnership Association) convened its annual meeting and conference in Washington, D.C., last week. This yea...

The energy sector posted a loss during the third quarter of 2019. In 2014, the energy composite fell by 36.59% due to the swoon in crude oil, petroleum product, and natural gas prices. A composite of energy commodities fell by 25.14% in 2015, making it the worst-performing sector of the year. ...