Jared Cummans: As we enter the latter half of earnings season, it is time for a number of the world’s biggest and most significant commodity-based firms to report their results from their most recent fiscal quarter. The figures they post as well as the guidance they provide Read more…

Just when you thought America’s shale oil and gas boom couldn’t get any bigger, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates a newly emerging shale play likely contains about 38 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, 940 million barrels Read more…

Oh, how I miss the days when gas was only $0.79 per gallon. It may have been a long time ago, but there’s not a time I don’t think about it whenever I’m refueling at the pump. Yesterday, when I filled up my Chevy, I paid $3.81 per gallon, which cost about Read more…

I hope you’ve been doing more than just watching America’s shale natural gas and oil revolution. That’s because not only is it changing our energy future, it’s creating a slew of opportunities for investors to make money. For example, in January, I Read more…

Jim Trippon: Telecom giant Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) recently raised its quarterly dividend from 50 cents per share to 51.5 cents, for an annual payout of $2.06. This is a 3 percent increase in the dividend, and is the sixth consecutive year for a dividend increase. Read more…

John Daly: Well, its official – the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when about 58 percent of the contiguous U.S. was in moderate to extreme drought. Read more…

Roger Conrad: Thanks to investors’ flight to safety and unabated hunger for generous dividends, the Dow Jones Utility Average (DJUA) is within a few percentage points of its all-time highs. Read more…