Alexander Pearson is an online financial journalist. He has contributed market analysis, industry news, and educational articles to a variety of sites including ETFDailyNews and OilPrice.com. His background is in quantitative trading and strategy development.
Alex’s main ... more
Alexander Pearson is an online financial journalist. He has contributed market analysis, industry news, and educational articles to a variety of sites including ETFDailyNews and OilPrice.com. His background is in quantitative trading and strategy development.
Alex’s main specialization is in the brokerage industry, and he is the editor of BestBrokerDeals.com, an online portal for broker promotions providing a wide range of tools and resources to research and compare discount brokerage firms.
lessBWX | SPDR Barclays Capital International Treasury Bond ETF |
CUT | Guggenheim Global Timber Index ETF |
DBE | PowerShares DB Energy Fund |
DBP | PowerShares DB Precious Metals Fund |
IGF | iShares S&P Global Infrastructure Index Fund |
RWX | SPDR DJ Wilshire International Real Estate ETF |
SPY | SPDR S&P 500 |
TLT | iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund |
VB | VANGUARD SMALL CAP ETF |
VEU | Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF |
VNQ | Vanguard REIT ETF |
VO | Vangrd Mid-Cap ETF |
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Why Oil Can’t Provide ‘Deep Value’
Thanks for your comment. I don't think the concept of community oil (or fuel) banks is too outlandish; certainly the average consumer prefers and understands holding an underlying physical commodity to any kind of complicated derivative.
I'm currently researching a piece about the effect of falling oil prices on the storage companies (BKEP, NV, KMI etc), and was somewhat surprised to discover that the supply glut hasn't helped their share prices, which seems counterintuitive.