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Natural Gas Investing: Private Equity Firms Smell Blood!

| May 11, 2012 | 0 Comments
Natural Gas Investing:  Private Equity Firms Smell Blood!

No doubt about it, the past two years have been a complete disaster for many natural gas exploration and production (E&P) companies. With the price of their product falling through the floor, producers are taking it on the chin. Revenues are sinking, margins are getting mauled, and balance sheets are broken- all due to the […]

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The Secret To Trading Natural Gas

| June 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

When I was an investment banker, we were constantly meeting with company management.  The pre-meeting ritual was always the same.  We’d look at recent news, brush up on management bios, and review recent performance.  Of course, we’d also look at the market action of the company stock. Sometimes the company’s performance was great… strong revenue, […]

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Private Equity – Goldman Sachs’ Recent News

| April 13, 2009 | 0 Comments

If you spend enough time on Wall Street, you learn that there are two types of investors.  Smart money, and dumb money.  The smart money is always ringing the cash register and pocketing millions of dollars.  The dumb money… well… they’re not. There’s a little known third group of investors who don’t fit in either […]

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