They got burned on their sensationalist claims that hydraulic fracturing caused flaming faucets.
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August 27 - News
Despite North American oil production picking up in the past few months, the global scene presents a different picture.
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August 26 - Commodities, News
No one likes getting left behind. In the case of a company, though, getting left behind can potentially mean closing up shop.
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August 26 - Commodities, News
Now, according to many market players, hedge funds are assumed to be overrated, old financial tools of an era lost to time.
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August 26 - News
Several weeks after the end of each quarter, hedge funds and other major investors file 13Fs with the SEC to disclose many of their long equity positions as of the end of the ...
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August 26 - Hedge Funds
At the moment, there are many metrics shareholders can use to track Mr. Market. A pair of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading movement.
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August 25 - News
Despite some fairly large onshore acquisitions over the past few years, big oil has largely remained on the sidelines when it comes to the shale oil and gas boom.
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August 23 - News
Now, according to many investors, hedge funds are viewed as overrated, old financial vehicles of a forgotten age.
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August 23 - News
To many market players, hedge funds are perceived as useless, old financial vehicles of an era lost to time.
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August 22 - News
Now, according to many traders, hedge funds are perceived as delayed, old financial tools of a forgotten age.
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August 22 - News
The frenetic activity surrounding earnings season has come and gone.
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August 22 - News
If you happen to be a huge market nerd who keeps close track of SEC filings, you probably know Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) recently released its latest equity holdings with...
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August 20 - News
"America has a long history of achieving the impossible. We defeated the British. We landed on the moon. We invented the Internet.
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August 12 - News
I started writing for the Motley Fool Blog Network in June 2012 because I enjoy sharing my passion for investing in great companies.
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August 9 - News
Production in the Eagle Ford Shale is soaring, and companies are clamoring to drive production in South Texas up even further with each passing day. The buzz is palpable.
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August 1 - News
After spending $19 billion to buy a couple of oil and gas companies, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX) is understandably exhausted.
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July 30 - News
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC) is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world, and the second-largest U.S.
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July 29 - News
In early June 2013, struggling oil explorer and producer Devon Energy Corp (NYSE:DVN) announced that it would spin off a portion of its pipelines and storage facilities, otherwise...
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July 29 - News
Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR) CEO Harold Hamm has a dream that one day the United States will be energy independent.
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July 29 - News
The oilman turned corporate raider was one of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout craze of the 1980s, producing huge gains for his investors while becoming one of the richest...
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July 24 - Hedge Funds
An EOG Resources Inc (NYSE:EOG) operated well in the Eagle Ford Shale of Texas has set a new regional record for oil production.
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July 24 - News
After lots of speculation, oil and gas giant Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) has finally come to terms on a joint development agreement with Argentine national oil company YPF ...
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July 22 - News
The recent derailment of the Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway train in Lac Megantic, Quebec, caused irrevocable damage on a small town just 10 miles from the U.S.-Canada...
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July 22 - News
At the Delivering Alpha conference on July 17th, billionaire Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors listed SandRidge Energy Inc.
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July 17 - Hedge Funds
A perfect storm is about to hit the gasoline market, making it possible that gas prices will jump by up to 20 cents per gallon over the next few days.
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July 15 - News
Millennium Management fund is a global hedge fund with assets of around $18.17 billion under management as of May 31, 2013.
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
Recent oil discoveries in South America have put that continent on the map for investors looking to profit from the development of these resources.
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July 5 - News
Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) recently announced the sale of its 10% stake in certain offshore operations in the African nation of Angola for $1.5 billion.
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July 5 - News
Unfortunately for investors, there are no exchange traded funds, or ETFs, heavily weighted toward the play.
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July 5 - News
The landscape of a swath of southern Texas has seen some radical change lately. Oil derricks are popping up all over the bushy ranch land.
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July 1 - News
You may have become queasy watching the market bounce around rather dramatically of late.
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June 26 - News
The oil and gas trade rags are abuzz as April's production numbers have hit the press. Volumes are up in Texas' Eagle Ford and North Dakota's Bakken shale.
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June 24 - News
It may be a matter of months before production in the Eagle Ford shale play catches up to its Bakken cousin.
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June 24 - News
When we think about the country that is fueling all the growth in South America, Brazil is the first country that likely comes to mind.
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June 19 - News
The slump in natural gas prices last year hit more than just producers' earnings.
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June 18 - News
The past two years saw the supermajor oil companies struggle with declining production volumes.
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June 17 - News
According to the Texas Railroad Commission, crude oil production from the Eagle Ford region averaged more than half a million barrels per day for the first quarter of 2013.
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June 12 - News
Oil production coming out of the Bakken was closing in on 800,000 barrels of oil per day as of this past March.
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June 6 - News
The North American rail industry has been a life raft for oil production. In almost every major shale oil play in the U.S., production has steadily outpaced pipeline capacity.
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June 5 - News
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors, including billionaire Israel Englander’s hedge fund Millennium Management.
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June 3 - Hedge Funds
It's no secret that oil and gas behemoth Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) operates in a vast array of locations.
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May 24 - News
In today’s marketplace, there are plenty of gauges investors can use to analyze Mr. Market. A couple of the most useful are hedge fund and insider trading movement.
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May 24 - News
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors as part of our work researching investment strategies (we have found, for example, that...
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May 17 - Hedge Funds
Brand-new pick-ups and SUVs, many with dealer tags, filled the roads, darting in and out of traffic, their drivers seemingly heedless of the risk of a wreck.
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May 17 - News
The advent of the shale gas revolution is the culmination of advances in the methodology used to detect abundant reserves of Natural Gas and technological leaps in the means to...
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May 15 - News
Looking for a new "get rich quick" scheme? Head down to South Texas and start drilling wells in the Eagle Ford Shale then, as nearly every company with acreage down there is experiencing...
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May 14 - News
QEP Midstream Partners is about to become a real, live master limited partnership.
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May 13 - News
Tomorrow, Enerplus Corp (USA) (NYSE:ERF) will release its latest quarterly results.
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May 9 - News
To most traders, hedge funds are viewed as worthless, outdated investment vehicles of yesteryear.
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May 9 - News
Oil and gas environmental service provider, Heckmann Corporation (NYSE:HEK) , reported first-quarter earnings on May 8.
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May 9 - News