Yesterday, December 11th the 158th OPEC meeting was held in Quito, Ecuador. OPEC which is responsible for about 40 percent of world crude supply announced its decisions vis-à-vis its output quota for 2011. The main decision was that the output…
Category: Opinion
Is it the season of the Natural gas prices rise? – Examining the seasonality in Natural gas prices
The passing month of November presented a rise in major commodities prices such as crude oil prices and gold prices; however, Natural gas prices also experienced a sharp rise in its prices. By examining the percent change in the average…
Ecstasy for the Gold – the diminishing relations of gold and USD – A short analysis
As the spot gold price is soaring there are many theories that investors and traders try to compose in an attempt to understand the market and the driving force behind gold prices rise. Some consider the interest rates as the…
Are solar stocks due for a rally? – reviewing Applied Materials Inc.
According to a recent post I have read in oilprice.com, a rally of solar energy companies’ stocks is possible as they are traded too low for the market. I think it’s an interesting idea worth exploring. Before dealing with the…
Tackling the oil to gold ratio paradigm – fact or fiction? A short analysis
There are many crystal balls that are sold on line that suppose to help us understand and maybe even predict commodities’ prices such as crude oil prices. In a recent post I have written about the relationship between crude oil…
The parting of oil prices from natural gas prices – examining their declining relation
As I have referred in a previous post about the publication made on Forbs regarding the crude oil prices to natural gas price ratio in which there is correlation between the two commodities’ prices and therefore one could use this…
Another blow for wind power, this time from global warming
Just when we thought that Global warming cannot get another hit… It seems that there is another unexpected adverse effect of global warming that could affect energy production, in particular – wind power. According to a recent study, there is…
The Relationship between Dollar/Euro and Crude Oil Price – Fact or Fiction? – 9th of November
There is an old paradigm among analysts of crude oil prices vis-à-vis to the Dollar/Euro exchange rate: in many cases analysts quote the level of correlation between the two indexes and conclude that due to their high level of correlation they assume a cause and effect relationship
How will the Quantitative Easing affect the Crude oil price – 4th of November
Now that the quantitative easing – second stage, is on its way, it could stir up crude oil price; As a result, we might consider oil as a good investment for now. Let’s review some issues that occurred this passing week,…
The path to a low CO2 emission world
There is an interesting post made by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, on Project Syndicate who suggests away to deal with the long adverse effects caused by burning crude oil and coal that emits CO2 and contribute to the greenhouse effects.…