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• Roger Wiegand: Oil to Reach New Highs by Year-End

  The Energy Report submits: Despite severe economic turmoil, demand for oil is rising significantly—in fact, it will land somewhere in the range of $150 to $157, according to Roger Wiegand, editor of Trader Tracks. A native of Michigan, Roger has had an interest in precious metals and futures since the commodity rallies of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His background in a 25-year real estate development and construction career specialized in forward planning, consulting, and using creative skills for conceptual project thinking. His present work is focused on the precious metals, currency, energy and interest rate markets for trading on the primary American exchanges. Experience in land, development and base material projects has evolved into consulting for mining companies and analyzing those markets. He has developed longer-term ideas for finance and mining marketing doing work on behalf of private and public mining companies. Roger’s consulting work is to focus on concepts and “big picture” forward planning for mining companies. His newsletters utilize the global news, and his personal research and knowledge for expressing personal trading ideas. Complete Story » Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 3:46 AM Filed under: XLE, OIH, BTU, OIL, USO, MEE, The Energy Report

• Ten Missouri Stocks

  Stockerblog submits: Missouri has a very diversified economy. It has a large service sector, wholesale, retail, manufacturing and agricultural. It is a top producer of automobiles, beer and aerospace technology. Some lesser known facts about Missouri follow: Missouri’s top commodities are soybeans, cattle and calves and corn. 14,842 new businesses settled in Missouri during 2007. Top manufacturing industries in the state are: transportation equipment, food products, and fabricated metals. The manufacturing industry employs 13% of the work force. Missouri exports chemicals, machinery and food products to South Korea, China and Japan. The High-tech industry of Missouri employs 4% of the work force. Missouri offers over $306 million in incentives for biofuel energy development, along with tax credits. Forest products contribute $1.69 billion to the economy. Top industries depending on exports are the aircraft manufacturing, and the wholesale trading industries. The optical instrument and less manufacturing industry exports 100% of its products. The following companies are headquartered in Missouri: Complete Story » Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 3:19 AM Filed under: BTU, WFR, Stockerblog, BUD, DOX, EMR, HRB, MON, SIAL, ESRX, AEE

• S&P 500 Energy Stocks

  Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Earlier we noted that not one stock in the S&P 500 Energy sector was trading above its 50-day moving average.  Below we highlight the individual stocks in the sector and where they're trading relative to their 50-days.  As shown, Massey Energy (MEE) is the furthest below its 50-day at -47.3%.  MEE is followed by NOV (-33.6%), CNX (-32.5%), NBR (-31.8%), and COG (-27%).  Tesoro (TSO), Valero (VLO) and Sunoco (SUN) are down the most year to date, but they're currently trading at some of the closest levels to their 50-days in the sector.  Exxon Mobil (XOM), which makes up nearly a third of the entire sector, is currently trading 8% below its 50-day and down 21.89% year to date. Complete Story » Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:21 PM Filed under: XLE, Bespoke Investment Group, IYE, BTU, XOM, RRC, CHK, COG, XTO, SUN, VLO, CVX, WFT, BJS, BHI, HAL, NBR, NOV, HES, NBL, MEE, CNX, MUR, EP, WMB

• Coal Generates Global Strength

  Zacks.com submits: As investors continually look toward commodity-based investments to solidify their portfolios in these sagging market times, Zacks senior coal industry analyst Neil Malkin was on hand recently to give us his updated outlook on coal. While some commodity-oriented stocks are growing more conservative in their profit-margin outlook, you are staying bullish on coal companies. What is the advantage coal stocks have, looking ahead? Complete Story » Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 8:47 AM Filed under: Zacks.com, BTU

• Don't Burn That Coal Just Yet

  Dan Tierno submits: Yesterday, I went into my backyard to grill some tasty treats, as it was a pleasant evening and...well...grilled food be good. As I cleaned out my Weber to start my fire, I went into my shed to pick up some fuel for the fire - and lo and behold nothing was there. My coal was stolen. I figured, why steal coal now? I mean, coal shares are in the midst of a nasty correction. Why in the world would anyone want to try to catch that falling knife?  In such a situation most people would have just went out and bought more charcoal, but not me. I had a hunger - but not for burgers. Complete Story » Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:16 AM Filed under: BTU, ACI, MEE, Dan Tierno

• Peabody Energy Corp. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) Q2 FY08 Earnings Call Complete Story » Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:49 PM Filed under: BTU

• Peabody Energy: Stellar Results, If Anyone Cares

  Trader Mark submits: First, wow what a day. I feel like I suddenly own a fleet of financials for the past year. Very strange past 2 months - in June while the market was demolished we held up fine, and now the exact opposite is happening in July. I guess reversion to the mean still holds. I am checking the results over at CGM Focus [CGMFX] every day to see how Ken Heebner is handling this and he was down 5% yesterday alone and over 9% the past week; 14% for the month. This is the "risk" part of risk/reward of running concentrated portfolios. We're outperforming those results the past month, but that is not much consolation as we watch the past year's gains boil away. I'll have to double check our holdings for subprime exposure tonight (no wait, that would be a "good thing" to have the past few weeks) - in the meantime we are back to over $200K in cash as I check for missing limbs. Some of these "global growth" stocks are now priced below levels they traded when crude was below $100. Nuts. The group that really gets me are the infrastructure stocks - why they are being decimated along with everything else is really a mystery. Again it's all just "one big trade" it appears. Complete Story » Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:07 PM Filed under: BTU, Trader Mark

• China Poised to Pounce on U.S. Coal Suppliers

  Money Morning submits: by Jason Simpkins The recent buyout of Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR) by Cleveland Cliffs Inc. (CLF) could ignite more than $50 billion worth of M&A deals in the U.S. coal industry over the next few years as Mainland China rushes to solve a major energy shortfall. Complete Story » Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 4:36 AM Filed under: BTU, ANR, CLF, Money Morning, ICO

• Coal Stocks: Make Money in Picks and Shovels

  Guy Bennett submits: How hot is coal? Goldsource Mines Inc. (GXSFF.PK) was searching for diamonds in Saskatchewan last May when they stumbled on a high quality coal seam and their stock soared 9,100% in 3 months. Complete Story » Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 9:03 AM Filed under: JOYG, Guy Bennett, BTU, ANR, CNH, PCX, BUCY, GXSFF.PK, KOL