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An unusual confluence of factors saw oil prices in April 2020 drop below zero. And now, the opposite is just as unexpected. OPEC+ has so far stuck to its plans to boost production by 400,000 barrels a month until entirely replacing the amount taken out in 2020. In the face of surg...
Oil and natural gas are on a bit of a tear this year. West Texas Crude Oil approaching $80/bl for the first time in seven years. As the impact of towering energy costs billows through markets, we’re left asking if these moves higher result from supply chain issues and deman...
Markets are already shaky; rising energy prices could make this correction even worse. Soaring oil prices could further exaggerate supply chain crunches, with rising costs putting pressure on manufacturers, leading to cost-push inflation. Although this problem does not pose an imm...
The unprecedented spike in European and Asian gas prices has apparently subjected major trading houses to massive margin calls that have put strains on their liquidity resources. This mismatch between timing of cash flows on a hedge instrument and the underlying physical can create ex...
With inflation fears getting stoked by the mainstream media, traders are pushing oil, interest rates, and the dollar higher. The good news is that oil did finally break above the long-term downtrend. However, it is too soon to know if these prices will “stick.”. In t...
While renewables like wind and solar power can help meet much of that new demand, the intermittent nature of renewables make it harder to fill the baseload generation gap. Battery storage technologies are not yet mature enough to be deployed today at such scale to back up wind and sol...
The ongoing spike in European natural gas prices has raised the question of whether oil products including LPG can be substituted for gas to help alleviate market pressures. In the case of LPG, the only significant switching available is within refineries, which can increase their use...
June Non-OPEC production increased by 73 kb/d to 48,508 kb/d. The biggest contributors to the increase were Canada (249 kb/d) and China (46 kb/d). July production for the Non-OPEC countries is projected to increase by close to 1,300 kb/d over June to 49,802 kb/d by the EIA STEO report...
Why there are reasons to stay positive on markets. Outlook for equities in the next 12 months. Is a market correction coming this fall? For further details see: The October Effect: Why There Are Reasons To Stay Positive On Markets
With the bond market reacting to the announcement by selling off sharply, yields look to be trying to now price in inflation. The futures curve itself remains in state of backwardation, a situation whereby the prices of the shorter-dated contracts exceed the longer-dated contracts. ...
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In this episode of Industry Focus: Energy , Nick Sciple chats with Motley Fool analyst Jim Gillies about some recent interesting stories. They discuss Warren Buffett selling airline stocks and Elon Musk's Twitter antics. Jim talks about digging deeper into companies' financials. They also t...
In this episode of Rule Breaker Investing , David Gardner chats with Motley Fool analysts Buck Hartzell and Robert Brokamp about dividend investing. Discover how dividends have behaved historically and their importance. Which one is better for shareholders: dividends or share buybacks? What s...
Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays” or the “Issuer”) announced a temporary reduction of the minimum early redemption size of certain series of ETNs as specified in the table below (together, the “ETNs”). Currently holders of the ETNs are required to redeem...