published Aug 11th 2016, 4:00 pm, by Christopher Langner (Bloomberg Gadfly) —The investment universe seems to be going nuts. Everyone’s moving either into the safest assets, such as gold and Treasuries, or into the riskiest ones, like emerging-market debt and equities. Call it a mass barbell strategy. Or perhaps negative-rate
©2015 Bloomberg News NPNRWH6JIJV3 (Bloomberg) — The shale oil boom that turned the U.S. into the world’s largest fuel exporter and brought $3 gasoline back to America’s pumps is grinding to a halt. Crude output from the prolific tight-rock formations such as North Dakota’s Bakken and Texas’s Eagle Ford shale