Game Changing Battery Technology: Is It Here Now? Nearly every oil observer - Simmons, Maxwell, Jeff Rubin, many others, and least of all myself - see oil prices rising in 2 - 5 years, probably to new heights, if the global economy continues to recover.   That’s based on pretty accurate visibility of new oil supply over the next 5 - 7 years, fairly certain rates of decline in old fields, plus assumptions of demand growth rates for OECD, developing, and oil exporting economies.   I provided my own version of this …

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Buy, sell or hold?  I think it is too late to sell.  The question in my mind is whether to “catch a falling knife” or wait until there is some confirmation of a bottom in technical or fundamental terms.   Countless pundits have warned against ever trying to call a bottom in a real bear market, which this clearly is.  But the other mandate is to “buy when there is blood in the street” - buy when fear grips the market, sell when greed is peaking.  To decide which philosophy …

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The following discussion published at Seeking Alpha regarding investment opportunities in midstream energy distribution companies is a useful reference for investors looking for income and energy participation.   Midstream MLPs Crashing, Present Opportunity by: Prudent Speculations posted on: October 10, 2008 | about stocks: EPD / ETE / GLP / KMP / NSH / OKS / TPP / XTEX As we all know, the entire market has been crashing in recent weeks.  The price action in the MLP sector has been …

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