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Nic Chahine is a regular Tuesday guest on #PreMarket Prep, a daily trading idea radio show hosted by Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick. Tune in to the daily broadcast live Monday-Friday at 8 a.m. ET here. Chahine, an options expert and maven on Benzinga's Marketfy, gave his thoughts on Monday's...

Plenty of investors the tale of woe pertaining to emerging markets equities and exchange-traded funds last year. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM), the second largest emerging markets ETF by assets, slumped nearly 17 percent last year, but frontier markets stocks and the...

Perhaps it’s fitting that the final monthly list of the five worst performing S&P 500 stocks of 2015 is populated entirely by oil and gas stocks. After collapsing in mid-2014, oil prices declined another 32 percent in 2015, falling to below $40/bbl as OPEC continues to flood the global...

Oil prices will trade above $100 per barrel - just not anytime soon. According to OPEC's report, oil costs (in real terms) will rise to $70 per barrel in 2020, and remain below $100 per barrel for the following 20 years, reaching as high as $95 per barrel in 2040. OPEC also predicted global demand...

2015 has been a difficult year for oil investors and companies, as crude prices plummeted and supplies far outweighed demand. Several different factors have weighed on oil over the past year, all of which have kept the market from rebounding. The global economy has been a major contributor to...

Things are getting worse for oil and oil-related exchange-traded products. As of Friday's afternoon trading session, nearly 60 exchange-traded products have hit all-time lows. Of that group, 27 are commodities products, and that does not include a number of currency, fixed income and international...

Turn on CNBC or read news on financial website or blog and chances are you'll see something about how dismal oil prices and energy equities are performing. The Energy Select Sector SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLE) confirms as much with a 19 percent year-to-date decline – by far the worst showing...

JPMorgan believes that investors should begin rotating from consumer discretionary stocks into energy stocks. The firm predicts that the energy sector will be a market leader in 2016. A combination of falling non-OPEC production and increasing supply could trigger a technical rebound in oil prices...

In a new report, HSBC analyst Fredrik Nerbrand named the firm’s top 10 market risks for 2016. Here’s a breakdown of the list. 2016's Top 10 Risks 1. U.S. Capex Recovery In this scenario, U.S. labor markets will continue to improve leading to strong profits, higher capital spending, wage...

Last week's scoreboard showed a flattish result, but getting there was far from boring thanks to unprecedented jawboning by global central banks. Friday ended super green – up almost 2 percent – completely erasing the Thursday drubbing. The Friday open should have been weak as a...

OPEC will reportedly be sticking to its plan of flooding global markets with oil. Reports from OPEC's Friday meeting indicate that there has been no agreement between Saudi Arabia and other producers to balance the global market. OPEC has reportedly agreed to raise its production...

The Energy Select Sector SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLE) is off 16 percent year-to-date, by far the worst performance among the nine legacy sector SPDR exchange-traded funds. With another Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting looming this week, some options traders are betting on more...

The United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO), which tracks front month West Texas Intermediate futures, has plunged nearly 39 percent year-to-date. That massive decline comes on the heels of USO's 2014 loss of 42.4 percent. Yet, somehow, someway, USO keeps attracting assets. To be precise,...

By the standards of the other major exchange-traded funds tracking the BRIC nations, the 13.4 percent year-to-date gain posted by the Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (NYSE: RSX) is simply stellar. Actually, compared to nearly any emerging markets ETF, single-country or diversified, RSX and rival...