Exxon vs. Chavez: More Smoke Than Fire By Chris Gilpin, Senior Editor, Casey Energy Division Casey Energy Speculator Last year, Hugo Chavez kicked off another term as Venezuela’s president by announcing all oil majors in the lucrative Orinoco region would be forced to partner with PDVSA, Chavez’s inept national oil company. This was a surprise [...]

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Gold Hedge Book – Say Goodnight, Gracie Information just out is revealing that by the end of this year, the Gold hedge book of the large gold producers will be effectively reduced to zero. In fact, it will be down to just Barrick and Anglo Gold. This is bullish for the price of Gold, and, [...]

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February Issue is best yet I’ve been reading the latest issue of Casey Without Borders, edited by Simon Black and Fitzroy McLean. Wow, what a great issue. I can’t give away everything, but let me hit some highlights: The same kind of labor problems prompting a city in California to be the first ever to [...]

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Platinum and Palladium on moon shot As I mentioned in When Credit Crisis hits, It may be too late to act yesterday, once the train leaves the station it’s too late to check schedules. No one that I know of was predicting electric power shortages in South Africa being a catalyst destined to send Platinum [...]

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Do The Gold ETF’s Actually Have Any Gold? This is a legitimate question that I have been seeing a lot lately. The story especially gets life due to the suspicion that those who bring us the EFT’s are the same ones collaborating to hold down the price, i.e., manipulate the market. And the question is [...]

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When Credit Crisis hits, It may be too late to act When the current credit crisis began to unfold, many financial commentators started warning about potential failures of money market funds, especially the more aggressive or high yield ones. The concern was that losses on these higher yielding instruments would force these money market funds [...]

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All eyes are on Platinum as it breaks $2100 per ounce. The power shortage in South Africa has the PGM’s (Platinum Group Metals) on a tear. Buy why is no one mentioning Palladium? As Platinum goes higher, makers of catalytic converters and other users of the white metal, typically start substituting Palladium – thus easing [...]

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Casey Research recently released a Free Report titled “The Golden Triple-Play”. The idea of the report, of course, was to entice you to subscribe to their newsletter Big Gold. In the report they named one particular stock, one ETF and one mutual fund that they feel will do well for you in the unfolding currency [...]

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The Casey Files: The Push Toward Unconventional Gas By: Dr. Marc Bustin Senior Researcher, Casey Energy Division Casey Research Natural gas prices have inspired nothing but yawns over the past two years. But it would be a big mistake to fall asleep on old “natty”. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita skewed the perception of natural gas [...]

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Exxon dispute with Venezuela causes oil price jump Just when we thought cheaper gas might be ours – for a short time – Hugo Chavez gets in a spat again waving his finger at George W. Bush and threatening to cut off oil shipments to the U.S. Turns out, we don’t even need Peak Oil [...]

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