Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and UPS (NYSE: UPS) were among the companies that reported mixed earnings results on Tuesday.

A deeper look into Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) monster first-quarter earnings.

If The Gas Price Spike Act is passed, it would levy taxes up to 100% on any "excessive" oil company profits.

Today, the price of natural gas is as low as it's been since the middle of 2009, so what should you do?

I've been working on a special project for WyattResearch.com readers - something that will give you access to some of our "expensive" commodity research for much less than usual.

Here were the three small-cap stocks that made the biggest gains on Thursday.

The mainstream media is absolutely frothing at the mouth about the latest energy news to come out about the United States.

The commodity bull market will end. All bull markets end. And when it does end, it will be replaced by another bull market - probably in stocks.

China stocks were down more than 20% in 2011. Here are three that bucked the trend to make solid gains.

Three micro-cap stocks that made mega gains in 2011.

According to the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, domestic oil production from the Bakken shale in North Dakota is up four-fold since 2005, to 460,000 barrels per day, and it's projected to keep on rising.

Under most circumstances, you should strive to condition yourself to seek out hated, cheap investments.

Today I'm going to tell you a personal story about how I learned the most important lesson of my investment career at a very early age.

New Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has made a habit of finishing games strong after horrible starts. Here are three stocks that are doing the same thing.

Are oil operations in Iraq safe in the absence of a U.S. military presence?

It was another rough day for the financial markets, as the Dow fell 1.1%. Here are three stocks that bucked the trend.

If you've paid attention to the oil and energy markets at all over the last five years or so, you've inevitably heard of the Bakken...

The best deal in the commodity markets today currently yields a Treasury-beating 2.1% dividend... but it's so hated right now that very few people will buy today.

If two of these three trends don't take place, neither will a market rally.
 

Here’s one bit of good news amid all the talk of European debt fears and high unemployment rates: The U.S. is about to regain its status as the world’s top oil producer.

The stock market has made some very unusual moves over the last few days. First, oil has rallied right along with the U.S. dollar. Then oil held firm when stocks declined sharply on Wednesday. The safe haven of gold has sold off, even with the escalation of the Italian debt situation. Banks have been weak, even thought the stock market at large has rallied on good earnings and the hope that new leadership in Greece and Italy will actually help.

One area of the market that has seen unusual strength this week, despite a horrendous distribution day for most other assets on Wednesday, is...

Wednesday's large decline was the result of only one thing: the higher interest rate on Italian debt.

If the U.S. economy was growing at a stronger pace, if there wasn’t a lingering fear that financial institutions are still levered to the hilt (like MF Global and its insane 40-to-1 leverage), we might actually be able to brush off these European debt issues.

But growth in the U.S. does kinda stink right now.

I seem to recall EU leadership stating that it would not be dictated by the market. The point was that Europe needed to find the right solutions for its problems, and that it wouldn't be forced to rush that solution based on fluctuations in the financial markets... But that was before the yield in the 5-year Italian note hit 7.7%, as it has this morning.

Yesterday, a Euro Central Bank official was credited with sparking a rally when he said that the European debt crisis should be resolved in a year or two. That's a pretty flimsy reason for a rally, if you ask me.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has agreed to step down. His widely criticized bid to put the Greek bailout to a referendum was his final undoing. But was his proposal so ridiculous?

Forget the debt crisis in Europe and elsewhere - the world's biggest (and richest) oil companies are going shopping.

I don't want to get overly excited to be a bull here, but for the time being, I think yesterday could be a key swing low.

Oil is more useful as an indicator than even stocks because of one thing: business.

Well, that didn't take long. It hasn't even been a week since EU leaders burned the midnight oil to reach a deal that might help Greece manage its debt and remain an EU member. And yet, Greece is already threatening to derail the process by wanting to put the bailout plan to a national referendum.

For income-deprived investors, the oil and gas sector is a great place to search for dividend stocks.

From a low of 1,075, the S&P 500 rallied 210 points, closing at 1,253 yesterday. That's a 16.5% gain in a month. And there are some pretty amazing statistics to go along with that gain.

We knew bank earnings wouldn't be good. Analysts have cut their estimates for Citigroup (NYSE:C) several times over the last month, by an average of about 20%. So maybe it's a good sign that Citi beat expectations handily...

It's always tough to buy stocks when you should - just like it takes guts to be the first person to jump into the ocean after a shark attack, even in places where those are rare events.

I've asked my friend George Stubos, an expert energy and commodity investor to shed some light on something that I'm not quite up to speed on just yet: Mongolia.

Lower oil prices aren't really good news. Moreover, low oil prices don't even mean low gasoline prices - as you may have noticed lately.

Over the last year, overseas tensions drove the price of oil higher and had many people worried. Lately, the price of oil has plummeted on economic growth concerns.

I look at the entire global market for everything, and in doing so it becomes perfectly clear that no other market looks as promising or potentially profitable as the commodity market.

"If you want to buy some boring stocks paying low dividends, just buy a bunch of oil companies."

Before I tell you about the exciting stock story, I have to mention something unusual. As you know, I eat, sleep and breathe commodity investments.

And until recently, I mainly bought gold and silver, as well as regular old commodity stocks like Exxon-Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX).

But a few weeks ago my co-worker Andy convinced me to do something I've never done before.

Fuel efficiency is a good thing, right? I don't see why not.

But the prevailing myth is that fuel efficiency results in the use of LESS fuel.

It's just not true.

According to economist Jeff Rubin, greater fuel efficiency has not changed the amount of fuel Americans consume by one drop.

In 2002, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), America's authority on natural gas, (among other stuff you need to dig up, drill, mine or quarry), released a report saying that the Marcellus Shale of New York and Pennsylvania then had 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Then in July of 2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) upgraded that estimate to more than 400 trillion cubic feet.

But yesterday, the USGS revised its initial estimate up to 84 trillion feet - or down to 84 trillion feet, depending on which estimate you were looking at.

Small-cap stocks led Wall Street higher on Thursday, as U.S. markets experienced another riptide session of massive swings and overheated volume.

The Russell 2000 Index finished with a 5.4 percent gain, while the Standard & Poor's Small Cap 600 improved 5.3 percent.

Those performances were slightly better than those seen in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which closed 4 percent higher; the Standard & Poor's 500, which rose 4.6 percent; and the Nasdaq Stock Market, which added 4.7 percent.

I realize I've been abusing you with a barrage of pieces on gold lately, so I'm going to switch gears to a very exciting opportunity in an ignored and yet very attractive sector of the markets.

It's one of those rare times in the market when some stocks are so incredibly cheap, and have such attractive dividends, that you simply must own them.

It's a value-investor's dream to own a healthy blue-chip stock at less than 10 times earnings.

Do you own gold and silver?

Do you have investments in the stock market that give you the potential to profit from higher priced oil, natural gas and coal?

What about agriculture: do you have access to the inevitable sustained interest that people seem to have in eating food?

I hope you do. If you don't, it looks like you'll have an opportunity to buy some of these assets at sale prices during this broad-market down turn.