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Stock Market Futures Down on Falling Oil and Greek Political Turmoil

By , Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning -

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Stock market futures today are down 15 points, falling on Greek political turmoil and a continued decline in oil prices.

Among the top stories in the market today are new numbers from the holiday season, including optimistic news on Apple devices and shipping delivery estimates from two industry giants.

Here's what else will be moving markets today (Tuesday)...

2015 Oil Prices Won't Change the Emerging U.S. Dominance

By , Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI -

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My recent meetings in Dubai highlighted the profound change that will turn the balance of power in the energy industry on its head.

For years, OPEC was the puppet master, and the United States (and the rest of the world) were the puppets. They pulled the strings, and we danced. OPEC set the price of oil. OPEC controlled the supply.

But those days are ending. After dictating the course of oil prices for more than 50 years, OPEC is finding its influence diminished.

OPEC's oil ministers can read the handwriting on the wall as well as anyone. Not only are they about to lose the largest energy market in the world, but they'll soon be competing for the markets that used to be theirs for the taking.

Because in 2015 the United States will start pulling the strings...

The Damage Caused By the Oil Bear Will Spread Far and Wide

By , Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -

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Oil prices continued to fall this week but stock markets shrugged off the disarray this continued to cause in global markets after Janet Yellen whispered soothing words in their ears after the Fed's last meeting of the year on Wednesday. Mrs. Yellen has become a "bull whisperer" - fearful of upsetting the equity market, she cloaks her words in indirection and equivocation in an effort to keep them calm as she prays for an economic lift-off that will take her institution off the hook.

Unfortunately, her patient is likely to be very disappointed, for it would take an economic miracle the likes of which hasn't been seen in this country since the years after the Second World War to deal with the mountain of existing debt and future liabilities that are going to bury us.

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Oil Prices: Black Swan or the Work of Vultures?

By , Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI -

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Over the past few of days, three separate prognosticators have claimed the fall in oil prices is a "black swan" event - in other words, an outlier, a development that fails to follow any normal pattern.

This isn't a black swan, but calling it one may be a good way of clouding up what really is happening.

In this case, there's another motive at work - and the black swan becomes a convenient cover...

The Rushing Bear Market and How to Prepare

By , Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -

Oil prices plunged to their lowest prices in five years last week after the International Energy Agency (IEA) downgraded its forecast for global oil demand for the fifth time in six months.

The IEA report told markets that global growth will remain weak in 2015, triggering an across-the-board sell-off in stocks and junk bonds on Friday that left the major indices with some of their worst percentage losses in three years.

Unfortunately, stocks are still trading within a few percentage points of record highs reached only a week ago and remain severely overvalued in the context of seriously deteriorating economic fundamentals.

Investors that were complacently expecting stocks to melt up to "Dow 18,000" and "S&P 2,100" by year-end are now facing a the much grimmer reality of a correction and even the potential of a bear market in 2015.

As Crude Oil Prices Fall, These Drillers Benefit – Here's Why

By , Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI -

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Thanks to the drop in crude oil prices, some TV pundits are now talking about the end of the "new" oil age. With oil now trading in a band between $80 and $88 a barrel, there's a "new normal" for crude.

But lower oil prices never hit everyone the same. The little-known truth is that, in some cases, lower crude oil prices actually make some companies even more attractive.

Let me explain...

How Falling Crude Oil Prices Could Trigger an Unpredictable, Dangerous Mess

By , Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI -

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The dive in crude oil prices continued Monday as yet another sell-off targeted the energy sector for a particularly big hit.

This too shall pass. But the prospect of a protracted decline in oil prices is beginning to have broader policy implications in dangerous parts of the world, where rising prices have been the norm for most of the last decade.

As this situation develops, it could quickly get downright nasty…