Although we see very real danger in low energy prices we don’t think you should get comfortable with prices where they are right now; they aren’t going to last. A decline in demand has pushed prices down sharply in the last six months, but it won’t continue indefinitely. To be sure,… Read More

The selloff in gold in recent sessions has largely technical in nature. Once the metal slipped below the $840 mark it prompted a wave of selling that brought the price of the metal down to the next support level. Of course things don’t just happen in a vacuum. Triggering the selling… Read More

Commodities in general are starting to act well after the drubbing they took last fall. To be sure, the slowdown in the world’s major economies have had an impact on demand and, therefore, prices. Forced selling to meet margin calls added to the market’s woes as traders dumped positions for… Read More

Last month we regretfully bailed out of tiny NovaGold Resources (NG) in the Small Cap Portfolio in The Complete Investor. Among the junior miners, NovaGold is one of the most leveraged to higher commodities prices. However, a victim of the credit crisis, at the time it looked like the asset-rich… Read More

Like NovaGold, Gabriel Resources (GBU.TO) is one of the most attractive development-stage gold projects in the world. The pair also share other similarities, including their top shareholder. Here’s the latest from this exciting small cap issue:   Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have formed a… Read More

Investors have had to contend with mixed economic news of late and. They have, on balance, sided with the bad news in determining where we’re headed, as seen in their selling stocks. Interestingly, the bad news has largely been the sort that are lagging indicators, such as payroll numbers, while… Read More

Gazprom (OGZPY)Royal Gold (RGLD)Barrick Gold (ABX)Goldcorp (GG) Stocks covered in this issue   Happy New Year! In the words of Scottish poet Robert Burns regarding friendship, to you we say, ‘We’ll take a cup of kindness yet.’   Here’s hoping the year ahead will be a prosperous one. It certainly won’t… Read More

Stephen Leeb’s latest book, Game Over, How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy, will be published by Grand Central Publishing later this month. The book takes a hard look at not just peak oil, but peak commodities as well. In an exclusive for Leeb’s Energy World subscribers, below… Read More

Everyone loves buying stocks on the cheap. And there’s certainly no lack of bargains in the energy sector these days. But before you rush headlong into these shares, make sure you’re not stepping into a value trap. Some stocks appear extremely cheap for a reason. Perhaps… Read More

Our Spanish is a bit rusty, so maybe we missed something in a recent 10-year planning report from Mexico’s Energy Department. The report offered expectations that Pemex, the state-run oil company, will increase its production by 0.7 percent annually between 2008 and 2017. That data point… Read More