The following is a guest post by Marin Katusa, Chief Energy Strategist of the Casey Energy Report. Two words that any oil company dreads to hear are “export duty.” Especially if the word “increases” or “introduced” is floating around there too. So when Kazakhstan introduced an oil export duty to meet shortfalls in the national [...]

Traditionally, commodities have been natural resources. For instance, copper, natural gas, soy beans, orange juice, pork bellies, silver, copper, and — our obvious favorites — gold and silver. More recently financial instruments and other intangible assets have come to be regarded as commodities. For instance securities, interest rates, currencies, and stock market indexes. How Do [...]

I’m a huge fan of commodities, and there’s a reason for that.  In the end, the world economy is outrageously volatile. An international investor has to be careful which country he invests in, given that some countries are going up while others are going down. This volatility also exists on a market level and a company level. This volatility is [...]