For months now, the big story in the Aussie market has been China’s Inc.’s stealth invasion of Australia through the share market. A Trojan equity horse, if you will. But maybe we had the story all wrong. Maybe the Pilbara is invading China!

Crude oil is grabbing the headlines but it’s coal and uranium that together provide nearly half the world’s power.

Despite what you read from the financial newsletter industry, there aren’t many secrets left in the mining sector.

The price action in the Aussie share market is starting to look like a pinball game.

There has been little said about BHP Billiton Ltd.’s (BHP) attempted takeover of Rio Tinto PLC (RTP) in recent months, but the proposal is far from dead.

The yuan-dollar peg has gone a long way in ensuring constancy. Chinese economic growth – we would argue, all economic growth – ensues under the auspice of a stable currency. But ties to the greenback have recently come with a price.

When you have a market that’s in the process of hammering out a bottom (as I believe we have right now), my “best investing idea” involves carefully adding some of the very best small cap stocks to your portfolio.

Yesterday’s big bid by British Gas for Origin Energy puts coal seam methane (firmly in the spotlight). Recently we published a map showing Queensland’s coal properties, including the location of coal seam methane projects in the Surat Basin.

Indian governmental budgetary planners estimate that India will need to boost spending on roads, railroads and power to 9% of GDP, up from the current 5%, to fix their traffic problems, increase trade and compete on a global scale.

If the government demanded U.S. oil be sold at a massive discount to domestic markets, oil producers would stop investing in the U.S. And we’d end up buying all of our oil abroad.