Salient to Investors: Michael Lynch at Strategic Energy & Economic Research said an improving economy translates into more fuel demand. Production in Libya and the Kurdish region of Iraq appears to be increasing but neither source is very dependable. John Kilduff at Again Capital said the impressive economic data points
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: IEA said 15 European refineries have closed in the past 5 years and a 16th is due to close in 2014 as the US went from depending on fuel from Europe to being a major exporter to the region. Nigeria, which once sent 12 supertankers worth of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The flood of North American crude oil is set to become a deluge as Mexico dismantles a 75-year-old barrier to foreign investment in its oil fields. Ed Morse at Citigroup said Mexican oil output could double from inviting international explorers to drill there, the equivalent of adding
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill O’Neill at UBS Wealth Mgmt said the story is still the combination of easy money policies and expectations of growth into 2014 and that growth is on the horizon. The Investment Companies Institute reports individual investors gave $30 billion to managers in 2013, the first net
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bloomberg New Energy Finance says peak fossil fuels demand could happen in 2030 – the point when humans stop increasing their annual burn, either because the environmental danger makes it too costly or because buildings and cars run more efficiently. Oil and coal companies worth more than
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: I am long oil, gold etc which will go much higher if there is going to be a war – it sounds like they want one. Stocks will go down, some are already falling, commodities will rise. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/09/jim-rogers-owns-oil-gold.html Click here to
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeremy Grantham at GMO said: Commodity prices fell for a hundred years by an average of 70 percent, and then from 2002 basically everything tripled and regained the whole decline in 6 years – tobacco was the only commodity that fell. The game changed because of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Hedge funds et al increased their net-long position in gold futures and options for the 4th consecutive week and the longest streak since October, while more than doubling bets on lower corn prices to a record net-short holding. Jeffrey Currie et al at Goldman Sachs said gold will decline
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Sudakshina Unnikrishnan and Jian Chang at Barclays say should China’s growth dip to 3 percent in the next 3 years, copper would fall more than 60 percent, zinc by up to 50 percent, and oil to $70 a barrel. They cite risks of slowing industrial production and of financial stress due to debt of
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: Agriculture will enjoy an extended boom,Very bullish about farmland and other agricultural products. Bearish on Wall Street brokers and Ivy League professors. The central corridor from north Texas up to the Dakotas has the highest growth rates in employment, income growth and savings in
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