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Last week's suspension of a COVID-19 vaccine triggered a ripple effect that caused call option premiums to spike for other vaccine producers.

Robert Rapier Member since: 2018 Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer who works in the energy industry. Robert has over 20 years of international engineering experience in the chemicals, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries, and holds several patents related to his work. He has worked in the areas of oil refining, natural gas production, synthetic fuels, ethanol production, butanol production, and various biomass to energy projects. Robert is the author of Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil. He is also Chief Inv...

26 views I often remind people that a U.S. president’s policies generally have limited impact on the energy markets in the short term. This topic often comes up when gasoline prices are rising or falling. However, over the longer term a president’s policies can make a big impact. One of the examples I often use is President Nixon. The Nixon Administration passed a number of policies that had a significant and long-lasting impact on the oil markets, but those impacts weren’t felt until he was out of office. For example, President Carter experienced a rise in oil production when he was in...

Investing Daily Printable PDF To borrow a peace slogan from the Vietnam War era, suppose they gave a war and nobody came? Ira Glasser, who ran the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, recently summed up the significance of marijuana legalization on American politics: “Without marijuana prohibition, the government can’t sustain the drug war. Without marijuana, the use of drugs is negligible, and you can’t justify the law-enforcement and prison spending on the other drugs. Their use is vanishingly small. I always thought that if you could cut the marijuana head off the be...

Investing Daily Printable PDF Wall Street is full of jargon. Long, short, buy side, sell side, short interest, short squeeze, etc. The list goes on and on. Some of those terms are intuitive. You don’t need to have years of investing experience to know what they mean. You may even be able to accurately guess what they mean the first time you hear the term. Today I will discuss two common terms used by investing professionals: alpha and beta. Unlike other Wall Street jargon, the terms themselves are just Greek letters and don’t give a clue as to what they mean.