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Nico Isaac
11/13/2009 4:00:00 PM
Just when you think you've got a handle on the way certain fundamentals affect the market of your choice -- POOF! The rules change. Take, for example, the supposed set-in-stone logic that prices of crude oil rise when two things happen: The U.S. dollar loses and gold gains. As recently as late October 2009 -- with oil prices soaring to their highest level for the year -- this correlation was a constant mainstay of the mainstream financial media. Here, the following news sources from the time...
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Crude oil, oil, Energy, u.s. dollar, Gold
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Energy
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Jeff Reckseit
11/2/2009 4:15:00 PM
Large banks and more recently pension funds have suddenly become infatuated with gold. They chant the mantras that gold bugs have known for years: gold is a store of value; owning gold is financial insurance; an ounce of gold will always buy a good suit. The idea is that if the economy continues to weaken and share prices decline, a strategic allocation of the precious metal will hedge and offset some of the losses in the financial sector.
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Banks, pension funds, Gold, Currencies, oil, Grains, Meats, softs, collectible cars, dollar rally
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Precious Metals
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Nico Isaac
10/28/2009 5:30:00 PM
There are some jobs out there where having a split-personality would seem to actually improve your work performance. What got me thinking about that was the recent Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-like collage of news headlines regarding the presumed relationship between crude oil and equities.
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Energy, Crude oil, crude, oil
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
10/13/2009 2:30:00 PM
Over the last three months, crude oil prices have acted like a dog with a shock collar around its neck. One minute it's barreling up a hill at warp speed straight for the mailman at the top of the driveway. And then... ZAP! It's jolted by an invisible electric fence and sent scampering right back down to the place it started. Talking numbers: the market has been range bound between $75 and $65 per barrel.
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Crude oil, oil, Energy
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Energy
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Jim Martens, Senior Currency Strategist
10/13/2009 11:45:00 AM
Remember how bearish people were on oil ten years ago? Today, it's the U.S. dollar. This recent headline on DrudgeReport.com, "Kiss the Dollar Goodbye," complete with a picture of a smooching President Obama, is a fair reflection of the sentiment toward the buck. But here's what it likely means...
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u.s. dollar, oil, obama, currency, forex
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Currencies
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Nico Isaac
8/10/2009 3:00:00 PM
Most of the time, reading the mainstream news articles on a certain financial market is like watching some "Laurel and Hardy" comedy skit of errors. Picture it: The pair attempt to break into a house. Laurel goes in first through a window, which falls shut before Hardy can get through. Then, Laurel walks outside the front door to let Hardy in, only to have it lock on them both...
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Crude oil, oil, Energy
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
7/20/2009 3:30:00 PM
According to mainstream economic thought -- fundamentals are to financial markets what tire pressure is to a Tour de France bicycle racer. To wit: Inflated (i.e. positive) news makes it easier for a market to soar up those steep mountain hills (i.e. price charts). AND, deflated (i.e. negative) news makes prices fall behind and struggle to climb.
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Crude oil, peak oil, oil, Energy
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
7/10/2009 6:15:00 PM
I'm sorry, but there are only three possible ways a person could NOT know about the "demand crisis of 2009" long since underway in the energy smarkets. To wit: One, said person was born yesterday. Two, said person thinks "Crude" is the name of a Norwegian Heavy Metal band. Or three, said person lives on planet Mars
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Crude oil, crude, oil, Energy, demand
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
6/3/2009 5:15:00 PM
According to the financial mainstream, fundamentals are to markets what the moon is to the ocean's tides: Negative data drive prices down and ebbing out; while positive data draw them up and advancing in. Here's the problem: Tides don't regularly shrug-off or ignore the lunar pull. If they did, no one in their right mind would ever go swimming in such unpredictable waters...
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Crude oil, oil, Energy
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Energy
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
5/26/2009 3:00:00 PM
To most observers who compare the performance of Russia's stock market vs. its economy over the past couple of years, it must look as mysterious as the proverbial "mysterious Russian soul." See for yourself...
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Russia, rts, emerging markets, oil
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Stocks
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Nico Isaac
5/22/2009 5:30:00 PM
Over the last year, the fundamental experts have changed the "rules" of the game regarding Crude Oil quite often. Back in 2008, as prices rallied to never before seen heights, they delegated black gold to official "Safe Haven" duty. After oil took a flying leap DOWN from their mid-2008 peak, the experts renamed the game: Oil, once the VICTOR of recession, was now its greatest VICTIM.
Filed Under:
save haven, black gold, oil, recession
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
3/10/2009 4:45:00 PM
Over the last year, crude oil has thrown the mainstream energy experts for more loops than a knitting needle. One huge whopper of a loop: the severe 70%-plus freefall in oil prices from the July 2008 high to a recent five-year low...
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Crude oil, crude, oil
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
3/6/2009 2:00:00 PM
As the lines on your computer screen continually flash red across a large scope of the commodity markets, some of you are probably thinking: "What in holy heck happened to the 'safe-haven' premium of this sector?"...
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Commodities, Crude oil, Copper, oil, Corn, bob prechter
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Commodities
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Nico Isaac
1/14/2009 5:00:00 PM
According to the mainstream experts, crude oil and U.S. stocks have pulled a major "Star Wars." Meaning: As did Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, those two financial markets have switched from mortal enemies into eternal allies...
Filed Under:
Stocks, Crude oil, dow jones industrial average, oil
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Stocks
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Nico Isaac
12/19/2008 11:15:00 AM
One day, crude oil prices suffer their biggest weekly loss in energy trading history. The next day, crude oil prices soar to their highest level in nearly two weeks. All the while, the global economic slump continued to grow. Any questions?
Filed Under:
Crude oil, energy futures, oil, crude
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
12/1/2008 5:30:00 PM
According to the mainstream experts, the joined status of stocks and crude (to the downside) is as rare an event as Hallye's Comet. A myth-busting chart of the 52-week correlation between oil and stocks since 1996 strongly DISAGREES...
Filed Under:
Crude oil, dow jones industrial average, oil, us stocks
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
11/19/2008 4:15:00 PM
Fact: When crude oil prices were rocketing to never-before-seen heights back in July 2008, the mainstream pundits saw no end to the red-hot winning streak in black gold. Find out how our analysts saw the oil market cross the "line in the sand" from bull-to-bear beforehand...
Filed Under:
Crude oil, oil, Energy, Stocks
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Energy
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
11/17/2008 4:30:00 PM
Conventional assumptions about market drivers don't work – despite what you hear on the six-o'clock news. In fact, if there is one central point in the Elliott wave-based view of the financial markets (and the society at large), it is precisely this: Events outside the markets have NO trend-forming influence. Don't believe us? Explain this, then...
Filed Under:
us dollar, australian dollar, oil, Commodities, Gold, eurusd, audusd
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Currencies
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Nico Isaac
11/11/2008 12:15:00 PM
On Tuesday, November 11, crude oil plunged 5%-plus to its lowest level in 20 months. Below $60 per barrel is a far cry from the $300 oil forecasts delivered by the mainstream experts this summer. See how one "brave analyst" called the end of crude's uptrend before the powerful slide began.
Filed Under:
Crude oil, Energy, oil, peak oil
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Energy
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Nico Isaac
10/8/2008 4:00:00 PM
According to mainstream financial wisdom, when the plane of the U.S. economy runs out of fuel and starts hurtling toward the earth’s surface, one of the few markets said to provide a parachute of safety is … Oil. Problem is, over the last four months, said parachute has failed to open.
Filed Under:
crude oi, oil, Energy, Commodities, dow jones industrial average
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Energy
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