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Trying To Understand Cheniere On A Napkin

Trying To Understand Cheniere On A Napkin

On the surface Cheniere Energy (LNG) can be a difficult to understand. But if you break it down in small parts it’s not so bad. I’m trying to understand the gap in price between LNG and CQH. LNG owns 80% of CQH and CQH owns 48.9% of CQP. Is LNG more risky than CQH? LNG owns […]
The Real Story Behind Bulging Bitcoin

The Real Story Behind Bulging Bitcoin

Did you make $20,000 today? Well, you could have. In fact, you could have made tons more money. All you had to do was own some bitcoin, the cryptocurrency. As I write, bitcoin is up 47% for the month, jumping by several hundred dollars a day. What idiot doesn’t want to own this asset? Oh, that’s right. Me. Because […]
How Hurricane Harvey Could Actually Be Bad News For Oil Price

How Hurricane Harvey Could Actually Be Bad News For Oil Price

Fundamental Forecast for USOIL: Neutral Talking Points: Oil market demand structure exposed as Hurricane Harvey exposes refinery risk Gasoline spread volatility shows concern is focused on oil products over oil output in W. Texas Per BHI, US Oil Rigs falls by 4 rigs. Rig count drops by 4 to 759 active US oil rigs IGCS showing increase in […]
23 Of The Last 24 Times, This Prompted A Market Plunge

23 Of The Last 24 Times, This Prompted A Market Plunge

While FundStrat’s Tom Lee has not been banned from ESPN, he may well be banished from mainstream business media as not only is he bullish Bitcoin, and the S&P’s most-bearish strategist (target 2,275 year-end), he is now calling for a 5% correction in stocks as market breadth collapses. “The constellation of evidence is growing supporting such […]
Oil Prices Decline As Harvey Hurricane Roars Toward Texas

Oil Prices Decline As Harvey Hurricane Roars Toward Texas

Tropical storm Harvey is intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and is predicted to become the biggest hurricane to hit Texas in the last 12 years. Energy companies are thus busy chalking out ways to counter the storm which is expected to result into a major landfall by tonight or tomorrow. Impact of Hurricane […]
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                        The Long-Term Outlook For Equities

FV The Long-Term Outlook For Equities

Gold Just Entered A Massive Bull Market

Gold Just Entered A Massive Bull Market

I have been watching the price of gold closely. I’m tracking its short-term swings and anticipating where the next move will be. And while I expect gold to make another move lower, I couldn’t help but notice it recently broke out into a new bull market. When I looked at gold over a long-term chart, there were […]
Stocks Bounce As Investors Wait For A Tax Cut

Stocks Bounce As Investors Wait For A Tax Cut

Stocks Bounce As Bulls Quell Bearish Pressure- For Now Stocks rallied last week after the narrative in D.C. shifted toward a tax cut. From a technical perspective, as long as Monday’s low holds, this appears to be another short-term and shallow pullback. The major indices are tracing out a new early entry (see the latest […]
85 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including McDonald’s, Pepsico And Kohl’s

85 Firms Going Ex-Dividend Next Week, Including McDonald’s, Pepsico And Kohl’s

There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following nine Top 100 Dividend Stocks: Qualcomm, Dominion Resources, Magna International, McDonald’s, Pepsico, Principal Financial Group, Fluor, Kohl’s and Schlumberger. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on its ex-dividend date in order to be eligible to receive […]