Tag Archive | "TSX"

Upgrader: Brass Tacks

Thursday, September 18, 2008

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Brass tacks In markets like these, it behooves investors, advisers, businesspeople and journalists to return to first principles. May I first offer a mea culpa for failing to forecast the precipitous decline in barrel prices? Sorry. Getting down to brass tacks, the economic fundamentals of [...]

Upgrader:Canadian election in focus

Friday, September 12, 2008

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market news Ouch! For our Canadian investors in commodities, times have certainly been better. The TSX has been dragged downward by mining and energy concerns this week, and investors are understandably worried. Some see it as a natural part of a cycle, others as a [...]

Upgrader: September 3

Thursday, September 4, 2008

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Market News As most of you know by now, the barrel price for oil has dropped pr ecipitously in the wake of Gustav’s fairly uneventful passage through the Gulf of Mexico. The drop in prices has weighed down the energy-heavy TSX indexes, energy companies and [...]

Upgrader: August 22

Friday, August 22, 2008

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Hello to everyone out there. Sorry that Upgrader is later than usual this week. I have been in Winnipeg and Northern Ontario on a semi-vacation. On that note, it was helpful to be without news for a few days as it offered perspective on what [...]

Upgrader: August 14

Thursday, August 14, 2008

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Welcome back to the Upgrader. More Q 2 results were announced this week. The record heavy oil prices of the quarter have been kind to most, thought profits in refining operations have been hindered. Calgary’s Baytex Energy Trust (NYSE:BTE) was boosted by $125 million (CDN) [...]

Upgrader: July 14

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to HeavyOilInvestingNews.com The provincial government of Alberta announced that it will invest $4 billion (CDN) of hydrocarbon royalties into carbon capture and storage technology. Ed Stelmach’s Conservative government will create two separate funds. The first will be used to “finance large projects to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from [...]

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