Yesterday, oil was back up on a weaker dollar.

Crude oil futures gained $1.66 to settle at $114.53 a barrel on the Nymex. The euro, meanwhile, inched up 0.1% against the buck, off a six-month low of $1.4630.

Energy and oil expert Byron King says investors can expect oil to continue to head northward for all the familiar reasons. Oil’s long-term fundamentals are little changed since hit spiked to $147 a barrel at the end of July. And you can now pick up resource plays in 2008 at 2005 prices…

Many investors will want to avoid Russia right now. And they’ll definitely want to avoid Georgia.

In energy news Thursday, oil prices rose, breaking a string of three consecutive losing sessions. Crude for September delivery gained $1.44 to $120.02 a barrel, while September reformulated gasoline went up 5.2 cents to close at $3.0027 a gallon.

If you’re a global investor looking for global profits – including one potential way to double your money – you need to “Hit the BRICs.”

Oil made two runs toward $150 recently, and failed both times. Now oil is in a retreat. Oil was trading near $121 earlier this week. And it appears that support at that price is crumbling. This will surely take the oil company stocks down, as well as those of the oil service companies.

Big Media are ignoring the real problems in the oil market, says energy expert Dave Gonigam in The Daily Reckoning.

If you’re bullish on mining, don’t buy the companies. Instead, buy the companies that make the shovels and picks… That was conventional wisdom years ago before gold-mining developed into a legitimate investment sector. But that old adage still stands true today – especially in the oil business.

With the price of oil shooting through the roof, one of the most fascinating questions is just how much all the oil out there is actually worth. The other big question is how do you get your slice of it?

It’s no great surprise that investors in the energy market are getting rich. But there are many contrarian ways to play this boom. Chris Mayer at DailyWealth says pipeline construction is a hot topic at the moment…

Forbes Magazine has come out with its list of “Best Countries for Business” – and Denmark ranks as the world’s most business-friendly market. But unless an investor is looking to set up shop in one of these countries, you wouldn’t expect this list to be all that valuable.