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Gunmaker Smith & Wesson Holding (NASDAQ: SWHC) is pushing further to insulate itself from the vagaries of the firearms market: On Monday, it announced it was purchasing knife maker Taylor Brands for $85 million cash. Both Smith & Wesson and fellow publicly traded gunsmith Sturm, Ruger have benefited from the heightened clash over gun control in the wake of several tragic mass shootings, and from people wanting to protecting themselves, their families, and their property as such incidents gain national exposure.

Everyone seems to be looking for a great way to play a potential rise in oil prices these days. A few are simply buying ETF’s such as the Energy Select Sector SPDR (ETF) (NYSEMKT: XLE), and some are buying best-of-breed shale producers with costs low enough to wait out the downturn. While many are simply following everyone’s favorite billionaire investor, Warren Buffett, into shares of Canadian oil-sands giant Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU).

Close-up of machinery in an oil sands mine. Source: Getty Images.

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The slowdown in crude production declines shows that the oil market is finally head toward a delicate balance.
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Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Neither George W. Bush, the Republican Party nominee in 2000 and 2004, nor Jeb, the dethroned Prince of Wales, will be in Cleveland. Nor will John McCain or Mitt Romney, the last two nominees.

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Kelly’s reported claims comes days after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson made similar allegations against Ailes.