Joshua Bondy

SolarCity and SunPower should be worried about the cracks that are starting to appear in net-metering programs.

Upstream spending is heading offshore, and MLP income investors need to follow the money.

Chevron's 2014 capex shows that the majority of significant upstream projects are outside the U.S., and investors need to follow the oil.

By converting coal-to-gas China can help make the power plants close to its cities cleaner, helping Peabody Energy and Cloud Peak Energy in the process.

Value investors are coming out of the woodwork as copper miners like Southern Copper, Teck Resources, and Rio Tinto have seen their stock prices fall, but 2014 is shaping up to be another challenging year.

Kinder Morgan is a family of high-quality midstream companies that provides a number of promising investments for income investors.

With the latest nod from the Canadian government, 2014 will be a big year for Enbridge and its Northern Gateway project.

Magellan Midstream Partners and Enterprise Products Partners are attractive growth MLPs, especially when compared to their less-diversified cousins.

Tighter banking regulations will put downward pressure on commodities, and heavily indebted companies need to be careful.

Mexico needs more natural gas, and its latest legal reforms are paving the way for drillers to head south once the U.S. fracking boom calms down.

Big refiners and industrial players like Valero, Marathon Petroleum, and ExxonMobil are waking up to the fact that cheap natural gas is good for more than heating homes.

Thanks to new financing techniques, SolarCity and SunPower are expecting a very bright 2014.

The potash industry is facing falling prices, and things could get rough as we head into 2014.

Gold may be sexy, but that doesn't mean it is a good inflation hedge.

With falling tensions between Iran and the West, more Iranian crude may start flowing, and some U.S. refiners will pay the price.

Many turned their backs on SunPower when it posted big losses in 2012, but now things have turned around. The company is finding new and innovative ways to make solar energy attractive.

By heading over to Eurasia, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP are on the forefront of some of the biggest deals outside of North America.

The coal sector has been hammered, but the latest numbers show that Peabody has more going for it than most miners.

Don't expect gold to come roaring back anytime soon, but there are still some miners with relativity low costs that are worth watching.

Brazil's Petrobras is in the land of opportunity, but sometimes opportunity is too expensive.