Expect China’s big three energy companies to continue to invest in North American and Australian shale-gas operations.

Income or growth? That’s the false choice the big firms that dominate Wall Street present their investors all too often. Strong companies are using today’s low interest rates to issue low-cost bonds in record amounts. That new money is being used to redeem higher interest rate bonds, cutting costs and strengthening balance sheets. Some are using the money to finance expansion and acquisitions that will boost earnings going forward. As a result, dividends are both better protected than ever before and are poised for growth as well—two more very strong reasons to buy dividend-paying stocks.

Ghana has become the unlikely setting for a high-stakes oil bidding war that’s pitted global energy giants against one another. But the firms most directly leveraged to the country's growing oil and gas production aren't household names.

China's demand for electricity will only increase as its economy expands, heightening the need for additional power generation capacity.

All the controversy about hydraulic fracturing leads some investors to believe that Congress is ready to ban the technique. But these fears are overblown.

The industrializing world is bulking up on hydroelectric power, developed nations need to rebuild and modernize existing facilities. Here's how to profit.

There are two primary drivers of global crop demand: increased demand for biofuels and dietary shifts in developing countries. Both demand drivers favor higher prices next year.

Economic growth in developing nations is behind a change in global diets of epic proportions, the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Agricultural Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.

As long as these companies are locked into such immutable, transcendent trends, long-term success is inevitable. And we’re going to make a lot of money buying and holding them.

Alternative energy companies are probably getting the most attention as potential beneficiaries of HR 2454; after all, the use of these technologies would be mandated by the RES, and putting a price on carbon tends to make energy sources that don’t emit carbon more attractive. But don’t go overboard; the bill isn’t a legitimate reason to aggressively buy alternative energy stocks.