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The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (NYSE: EWZ), the largest exchange traded fund (ETF) tracking the largest Latin American economy, has technical problem. On Monday, the fund dropped below critical support at $50, touching a new 52-week low in the process. Volume was nearly 39% above the daily...

Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company...

Cost cutting and rushing to blame: http://www.kansascw.com/kscw/news/sns-rt-us-bp-spill-probetre78d0kv-20110913,0,5653364.story Now some self promotion.  This mess created one of the more profitable basket of investments I've made in a while.  I covered them real time on my blog at the time of...

Despite controversy over the process known as fracking, and despite pullbacks resulting from the recent market volatility, shares of the following seven oil and gas companies are trading more than twice where they were a year ago. These are all dividend payers as well. Apco Oil & Gas (NASDAQ:...

Despite the fact that there are nearly four people in China for every American, the United States as a whole has used more energy than China. That is until now. According to a report by British Petroleum, cited by Fox Business, China now consumes more energy than the United States. The...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman told CNBC that his team likes Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Ace (NYSE: ACE), BP (NYSE: BP), Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), and Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR). The Omega Advisors CEO also said that the dollar is headed softly lower from...

It has been nearly a year since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, an epic disaster that exposed BP (NYSE: BP) to government censure, litigation, and costs that would rise to billions. Of course, when your company is responsible for spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of...

This afternoon on CNBC's Fast Money, Whitney Tilson said that while he is a big fan and an admirer of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), he is sticking with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). “There's an argument against a lot of the big cap stocks that are struggling,” Tilson said. “But Microsoft is growing like crazy...

Following the fire at the Enterprise Products (NYSE: EPD) facility in Mont Belvieu, Texas, Jim Cramer was on CNBC warning that whatever you extract from the Earth has some dangerous factor. Could this have an impact on Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM), BP (NYSE: BP), or ETFs like United States...

Oppenheimer has published a research report on BP plc (NYSE: BP) and has raised the price target on the company from $45 to $55. In the report, Oppenheimer writes "We reiterate our Outperform rating on BP and are raising our price target to $55/share from $45. A Presidential Commission last week...

Wunderlich reports on Transocean (NYSE: RIG): that "reserve and production estimates depend on many assumptions that may turn out to be inaccurate. Any material change in these figures could materially change our estimates." Wunderlich remains cautious offshore and intends to focus on oil and gas...

Overt and Covert Strategies to Profit from the BP Oil Spill At times, companies or sectors that are in the most troubled areas provide the best buying opportunities. At other times, companies or sectors in seemingly unrelated areas can provide the best opportunities to profit from troubles....