Coal’s Sizzling Story
While most investors who either trade short term or invest for the long term have been in energy stocks for a while, despite the sagging overall markets, with the oils leading and continuing to lead the way, many are looking to an old energy source in a revitalized industry: coal. In the U.S., coal is still mined extensively and used in power generating, despite all the talk and some action toward “green” fuels. The coal industry has striven to mine and produce coal with fewer emissions when burned, though historically this has had a mixed record. There is, regardless, a…