Investors turn to gold as a safe haven in crazy economic times, but in actuality gold may prove the place to be even during an eventual economic recovery.

Irwin Greenstein writing for Contrarian Profits  suggests that Repsol, an oil major from Spain, could prove to be the sleeper oil play of 2009. With significant new oil finds, Repsol could put investors in a position to pocket gains.

A new report by the electricity industry suggests that the construction of a new nationwide grid to support alternative energy could cost up to $100 billion, throwing another roadblock in the path of investors seeking profits from the Obama mandate.

Now that China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s biggest car market, investors should be asking themselves if China is simply a better place to put their money.

Investors often look to a country’s GDP to determine whether or not invest in its markets, but when it comes to China the official rate of growth could be exaggerated based on a new, revealing data.

Rumors of a new forthcoming iPhone could provide AT&T with a positive jolt, given the historic benefits the carrier has enjoyed from Apple’s multi-purpose mobile device.

From our little corner of the world we’ve been warning investors off green energy for months, but the mighty New York Times has finally reached the same conclusion.

The train wreck known as China’s manufacturing sector took another tumble down the hill as India imposed a six-month ban on toy imports – one of China’s largest exports. The setback for China underscores our ongoing warnings to investors that neither a multibillion stimulus plan or anything that Beijing throws at its ailing economy will promise investors those speculative profits of yesteryear.

On the heels of a revealing unemployment report by the International Labour Office (ILO), China announced that the ranks of the people without jobs has dramatically increased – setting a 30-year high.

It appears that Big Media is finally catching on to President Obama’s alternative-energy ruse, underscoring our ongoing argument that short-term profits in green energy are elusive at best.