It is not just energy stocks that are doing well from the Russia-China gas deal, but the entire natural resources sector ranging from blue chips like Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) to promising small caps like Premium Exploration (OTC: PMMEF). A previous article on this site, “Putin’s Deal Show Value of Energy Stocks,”  reported on how […]

Natural resource stocks ranging in size from blue chips such as ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) to promising small caps such as Premium Exploration (OTC: PMMEF) and Mondial Ventures (OTC: MNVN). What is so appealing about the sector is the increasing demand for natural resources and the wide range of publicly traded […]

  April was a good month for investors in the natural resources sector. BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), the biggest natural resources company in the world, was up 4.36 percent (chart below).  The exchange traded fund for copper, iPath DJC-UBS Copper (NYSE: JJC), finished higher, too.  That is a very bullish sign as copper is a […]

  Due to the nature of Wall Street, many appealing small cap stocks such as The Original Soupman (NASDAQ: SOUP), Quadrant 4 Systems (OTC: QFOR), Mondial Ventures (OTC: MNVN), Premium Exploration (OTC: PMMEF), High Performance Beverages (OTC: TBEV), and Premiere Opportunities (OTC: PPBL), and many others are overlooked by institutional investors. Crowdfunding could soon change […]

  Led by United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), the bull market continues for the natural resources sector. United States Natural Gas is up for the last week, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action.  For 2014, the UNG has soared by more than 26 percent.  As a sign of the positive outlook […]

  While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) and the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index (NYSE: SPY) are declining, securities in the natural resources are holding up well.  United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), the exchange traded fund for the natural gas sector, is up for the last week, month, quarter, six months, and […]

  The Obama Administration, through the quantitative easing policies of former-Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, focused on bringing back the stock market from The Great Recession.  That was outlined by Bernanke in an op-ed in The Washington Post back in November of 2010.  It is being continued by his successor, Dr. Janet Yellen. The recent […]

  For investors thinking long term, the first quarter of 2014 was very bullish for the natural resources sector. It looks to be that way for the future, too.  SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources (NYSE: GNR), an exchange traded fund for the sector, is up for the last week, month, quarter, six months, year of […]

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B), Europe’s biggest oil firm, has declared “force majeure” again for its contracts in Nigeria due to hostilities. That means it is not bound to the contractual obligations.  There is also trouble in other natural resource sectors in Africa, such as gold and copper. Tension is not limited to Africa, however, […]

When major oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-B) and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) are selling off assets in troubled areas according to an article in the Financial Times, investors are naturally placing a premium on stability.  The crisis in the Ukraine is making that even more important.  That is why more are turning […]