The price of natural gas hiked in the past several weeks to its highest level this year. Did the recent rise in natural gas prices helped keep the stock price of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) from further tumbling down?…
During last week, gold and silver prices slightly declined as the recent developments in Greece, Spain and Italy that included riots against austerity measures may have pulled down not only bullion rates but also the Euro. By the end of…
Precious metals prices resumed their upward trend mainly during the first couple of weeks of the September in anticipation of many bullion traders for another intervention of the FOMC. This bet paid off because on September 13th the FOMC announced…
The highly anticipated announcement of the FOMC to launch QE3 was finally made a couple of weeks ago. As expected, on the day of the announcement the prices of gold rose. But since then, the price of gold remained nearly…
The price of oil changed direction and tumbled during the week after it had increased during most of August and the first couple of weeks of September. What could have caused such a rapid shift in the oil market? Will…
The recent announcement of the FOMC to buy mortgage backed securities at a rate of $40 billion per month is something that many bullion traders had anticipated and has already started to pull up the price of gold. Will this…
The ongoing hype over the expectations of another QE3 to be announced by the FOMC in the near future (the next FOMC meeting will be held on September 12th and 13th) made me think about the relation between the speculations…
The price of oil hiked in the past couple of months. During August the price of WTI oil rose by 9.6%; United States Oil, by 9.8%. The recent rally of the Euro/USD may have contributed to the rise in oil…
Precious metals prices didn’t do much during the first couple of weeks of August but then they both rallied as the renewed expectations of another stimulus plan by the Fed reignited the bullion market. The rise of Euro/USD coincided with…
There are renewed speculations around the future steps of the Fed and whether there will be an announcement of another quantitative easing plan in the near future. Last week’s publication of the minutes of the FOMC meeting revealed that the…