China, Greece and the NYSE: Black Swans or Red Flags?
Source: Special to The Gold Report  (7/9/15)
Scary. That is the word that kept coming up over and over as the news came in this week. Greece technically defaulted. The Shanghai Composite index dropped some 30%. And then a computer glitch caused the NYSE to be down for three hours. Are these headlines just blips on the equities markets? Do they have long-term implications for resource stocks? To answer these questions, we did what we do best at The Gold Report and asked the experts what is causing all the black swans and what they are doing to protect their investments. More >

Proven and Productive: BNK Petroleum Pumps Growth from Shale Properties
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (7/7/15)
BNK Petroleum Inc. operates on some very productive property in the Oklahoma oil and gas shale and is making progress on developing shale resources in Europe. As oil prices strengthen, company President and CEO Wolf Regener describes how his seasoned management team has positioned the company to grow again. In this interview with The Energy Report, Regener lifts the veil on BNK's activities both at home and abroad. More >

Matt Badiali's Methods for Investing in 'Cowboyistan'
Source: JT Long of The Energy Report  (7/7/15)
The best way to make money from the shale oil boom in Cowboyistan—the Bakken, Permian Basin and Eagle Ford shales located in North Dakota and Texas—may be the service providers. Master limited partnerships building pipelines to ship oil from newly cracked shale, and companies producing frack sand, will be hot stock prospects as the price of oil inches up. In this interview with The Energy Report, S&A Resource Report editor Matt Badiali shares the names he is researching in both the pipeline and fracking equipment and materials spaces. More >

Marin Katusa: Tricks Anybody Can Use to Out-Invest the Top Fund Managers
Source: Karen Roche of The Energy Report  (6/30/15)
You don't have to be a geologist or a workaholic fund manager to spot deals in the natural resources space—although it helps if you know a good one. Focus on the people behind the company, find out if they have skin in the game, and wait until you can get in at a lower price than their price. Then be patient. In this interview with The Energy Report, Marin Katusa, founder of Katusa Research, shares some of the names in the uranium and oil and gas space that could add up to future profit for any investor. More >

Rick Rule and Porter Stansberry's Guide to Protecting Your Portfolio from the Ravages of the Currency Wars
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (6/25/15)
Russia, China and the U.S. are in a battle for currency dominance and natural resource stocks have been buffeted as a result. When the dust settles, smart natural resource investors could be the big winners as long as they have taken the right protective measures. In this interview with The Gold Report, Sprott USA Holdings CEO Rick Rule and Stansberry & Associates Investment Research founder Porter Stansberry—the men behind the upcoming Sprott-Stansberry Vancouver Natural Resource Symposium—share their strategies for picking good companies no matter what happens on the political front. More >

'Rent' the Oil Space to Blunt the Jagged Downside of Volatility: Paradigm's Ken Lin
Source: JT Long of The Energy Report  (6/16/15)
Worried about a volatile oil and gas market? Paradigm Capital's Ken Lin advises waiting for quality companies to take a hit before swooping in to stock up, and then taking profits on the way up to avoid being caught in future carnage. In this interview with The Energy Report, Lin outlines eight companies with underlying strength. More >

Chris and Michael Berry: What the Boomers Got Wrong—and Right—About Natural Resource Investing
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (6/15/15)
What do Gen Xers not understand about value investing? What can Millennials learn from today's resource investors? In anticipation of Father's Day, The Gold Report, quizzed Chris and Dr. Michael Berry, authors of the Disruptive Discoveries Journal, on how investing has changed over the years in the gold, silver, niche metals and energy space, and what they are investing in today to make sure they survive to see the next cycle. More >

U.S. Global's Brian Hicks Shares His Summer Plans for Creating the Ultimate Resource Fund
Source: JT Long of The Energy Report  (5/26/15)
You may want to rethink those tickets to Hawaii, and instead spend the summer basking in the opportunities developing in three different sectors of the oil market. In this interview with The Energy Report, U.S. Global Resources Fund Manager Brian Hicks shares the names of the juniors that could benefit from the current volatility. Plus, he reveals the dramatic shift he made in the fund this year that allows him to get paid to wait for the market to catch fire. More >

Now Is the Time to Own the Oil & Gas Leaders: Keith Schaefer
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (5/19/15)
U.S. shale oil producers have responded to the oil price collapse so quickly, and with such discipline, that they've shown they are able to turn production on and off as if with a light switch. As Keith Schaefer tells The Energy Report, that means it's time to be nimble, and to keep small positions until oil finds a stable new price level. More >

Four Canadian Juniors Poised to Gain in the Oil and Gas Recovery: Angelos Damaskos
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Energy Report  (5/12/15)
With crisis comes opportunity, as the saying goes, and Angelos Damaskos, principal adviser of the Junior Oils Trust, has capitalized on the panicked selloff of junior oil and gas companies to build positions in four promising names in Western Canada. In this interview with The Energy Report, he explains why oil prices could reach $75 per barrel in the near future, and why companies making good money now will make much more on the upswing, with great benefits to shareholders. In addition, he highlights two Australian companies with highly prospective projects. More >

How to Pick the Winners in the Keystone Debate
Source: Money Morning  (5/7/15)
"There will be some big winners if the pipeline proceeds—but a lot more will be either unaffected or potentially hurt by more oil sloshing into the U.S. market." More >

The Big Opportunity in US Energy Right Now—and Why
Source: Keith Schaefer, Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin  (4/28/15)
"Despite the downturn in rig counts, there are a lot of Drilled-but-Uncompleted wells that will get fracked before the rig count turns up." More >

The Three Principles that Guide Randall Abramson's Oil & Gas Investment Strategy
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Energy Report  (4/23/15)
The market analysis tools used by Randall Abramson of Trapeze Asset Management Inc., suggest that the broad market has been fairly valued for about a year. But by applying apples-to-apples metrics to companies in the energy sector, Abramson has found specific equities trading well below their estimated appraised values. By the end of 2015, Abramson predicts oil prices will rise back to $70 per barrel or more, and undervalued energy equities should propel toward fair value. In this interview with The Energy Report, Abramson pinpoints some unloved energy companies poised for the rebound. More >

Is This Where Investors Should Be Looking When Oil Recovers?
Source: James Stafford, Oilprice.com  (4/21/15)
The weeding out of the good deals from the bad deals has now begun to restore a balance to Saskatchewan, which maintains the promise of a highly attractive final frontier in which smart management makes all the difference. More >

Dundee's David Talbot Charges Ahead, Confident that Uranium Has a Bright Future
Source: Peter Byrne of The Energy Report  (4/9/15)
Smart energy investors pay attention when Dundee Capital Markets' David A. Talbot speaks. With decades of experience as a geologist and financial analyst, Talbot knows his game. He puts his muddy boots on the ground, always visiting a mine before recommending a buy. In a wide-ranging interview with The Energy Report, Talbot opens Dundee's basket of well-positioned uranium mining firms—all well-managed companies that will pump out riches as the uranium price stabilizes. More >

Chen Lin Sees Buying Opportunity of a Lifetime in Energy Stocks
Source: JT Long of The Energy Report  (4/2/15)
After correctly predicting $47/bbl oil last year, Chen Lin, author of the popular stock newsletter What Is Chen Buying? What Is Chen Selling?, is licking his stock-picking chops at the bargains now available in international oil plays and the ones that could materialize stateside if the artificial pressure on domestic oil created by a ban on exports is not lifted. In this interview with The Energy Report, he names three stocks that are the victims of global hysteria around plunging oil prices and blindness to local opportunities. More >

Five Companies in Australia's Cooper Basin Worth Watching: Canaccord Genuity's Johan Hedstrom
Source: Peter Byrne of The Energy Report  (3/26/15)
Canaccord Genuity energy analyst Johan Hedstrom is tasked with scouring the Australian oil patch looking for good deals even as prices slip and slide. In an interview with The Energy Report, Hedstrom minces no words: Pricing and rig costs are obstacles to taking large profits. But there is a silver lining to the energy price cloud—Australian gas exports. More >

With Expertise and a Little Luck, East West Petroleum Reels in Profits Despite Oil Price Plunge
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Energy Report  (3/26/15)
Many oil companies have been devastated by the oil price debacle. East West Petroleum, on the other hand, is making money, pumping more oil and strengthening its cash balance. CEO David Sidoo tells The Energy Report how shrewd joint ventures and a firm commitment to low costs have led to highly profitable wells in New Zealand and significant upside in Romania. More >

Why Goldman Sachs Is Wrong About Commodity Prices: Philip Richards
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (3/17/15)
Goldman Sachs delivered a dire commodities outlook earlier this year, but RAB Capital Founder Philip Richards still sees compelling buying opportunities. In this interview with The Mining Report, Richards discusses his outlook for oil, gold, vanadium, zinc and nickel, and profiles companies with projects that will see the light of day even in harsh price environments. A few of these names have doubled in stock value in recent months, and still others look poised to deliver multiple returns on investment. More >

Stephane Foucaud: How to Make Money in the Chaos of Oil and Gas
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (3/11/15)
Operating in difficult conditions—whether political, logistical or technical—comes with the oil and gas territory, but the collapse in oil and gas prices has added further complexity and risk to the space. Though many companies have lost half or more of their share price in the debacle, Stephane Foucaud of FirstEnergy Capital tells The Energy Report how to find value in small-cap exploration and production names, and provides several examples of companies poised to rebound on the upturn. More >

When Junior Markets Turn Most Negative in 35 Years, Guess Where Financier Carlo Civelli Puts His Money?
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (3/10/15)
After 30 years of investing in natural resources, financier and founder of Clarion Finanz Carlo Civelli has declared 2015 to be one of the worst natural resource investing markets he has ever seen. But he is still finding opportunities by funding some of his favorite management teams in neighborhoods where he sees an opportunity to prove resources and attract buyers. In this interview with The Mining Report, he shares his secret for finding companies that can create value despite challenging market conditions, and he reveals where he is putting his money today.

Contrarian Steve Palmer's Balancing Act Stretches from Western Canada to the East China Sea
Source: Peter Byrne of The Energy Report  (3/5/15)
Building a small-cap energy portfolio that maintains balance in turbulence requires the ability to spot junior firms with solid backbones. Steve Palmer of AlphaNorth Asset Management has made a career of spotting companies loaded with value, and he tells The Energy Report not only what he looks for, but also where he has found it. More >

Three for Three and Going for Four: Manitok Energy's Mass Geremia
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Energy Report  (2/26/15)
The oil price collapse has left most of the industry reeling, but Mass Geremia remains unbowed. The president and CEO of Alberta oil and gas company Manitok Energy Inc. used hedging to protect against the worst of the downturn. In this interview with The Energy Report, Geremia explains how his strategy of prudent and efficient "old school" expansion has Manitok on track to become an intermediate producer before the end of the decade. More >

Macquarie's Brian Bagnell: Forget Peak Oil; Worry About Peak Demand
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Energy Report  (2/26/15)
Brian Bagnell of Macquarie Capital Markets has two caveats for investors in junior oil and gas companies: Expect extreme volatility, and don't expect oil prices above $70/barrel anytime soon. He tells the The Energy Report that the winners in this sector will demonstrate maximal efficiency and minimal costs, and that even in this time of crisis there are bargains to be had. More >

ROTH Capital's John White Pumps the Permian for Profit
Source: Tom Armistead of The Energy Report  (2/19/15)
John White has initiated coverage on several small-cap exploration and production companies in the Permian Basin, the latest of the major basins to turn in a big way from vertical oil and gas wells to horizontal fractured wells. In this interview with The Energy Report, the ROTH Capital Partners senior research analyst names five Permian players on his list of favorites. More >