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Energy / Oil Prices

How Herd Mentality Sparked Chaos In Oil Markets

Mar 28, 2023 at 09:03 | Tom Kool

The only certainty an oil industry observer can bank on right now is that no one understands the markets.  The extreme end of globalization has introduced so many variables that…

Will Banking Fears Force Middle East Producers To Cut Prices?

Mar 27, 2023 at 11:12 | Gerald Jansen

The banking collapses that have sapped confidence in oil markets and brought oil prices closer to the $70 per barrel mark have been followed with great interest across…

WTI Breaks $70 As Kurdistan Halts Oil Exports

Mar 27, 2023 at 09:44 | Tom Kool

Oil prices rose by 2% early on Monday, with the U.S. benchmark up above $70 a barrel again, driven up by a halt to Kurdistan’s 400,000-bpd of crude exports and…

Standard Chartered: Oil Prices Likely To Head Higher

Mar 24, 2023 at 10:44 | Alex Kimani

After a major decline that saw oil prices fall to multi-year lows, oil markets appear to have bottomed out and begun an encouraging ascent higher. Over the past…

Will Brent Break Below $70 This Year?

Mar 23, 2023 at 11:43 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Brent oil prices briefly slumped to $70 per barrel on Monday as fears of a recession and a wider banking crisis roiled markets and sent speculators fleeing riskier…

OECD: Falling Energy Prices Could Bolster Global Economic Growth

Mar 17, 2023 at 09:49 | Michael Kern

Signs have emerged of a slight improvement in the global economy, thanks to falling energy and food prices in early 2023, the OECD said on Friday as it raised its…

Are Oil Prices Set For A Quick Comeback?

Mar 16, 2023 at 12:14 | Alex Kimani

The energy markets are going through one of their worst selloffs in recent times as fears of a new global crisis continue to roil financial markets. Oil prices have crashed…

New Global Crude Flows Make UAE A More Powerful Oil Trading Hub

Mar 16, 2023 at 10:39 | Irina Slav

In 2021, India's refining giant Reliance Industries announced plans to move most of its oil-trading staff from Mumbai to Dubai. In 2022, Swiss-based Litasco, the trading arm of…

Bank Collapse Contagion Fears Spread To Oil Prices

Mar 13, 2023 at 09:44 | Charles Kennedy

Oil prices have fallen over $2 on Monday, and were down as much as $4 in early trading, as fears of a contagion spread following the sudden collapse…

Will We See A Return Of Triple Digit Oil This Year?

Mar 10, 2023 at 10:49 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Oil prices have been stuck in a tight range since erasing the gains of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the end of last year.  For most of last year,…

Oil Prices Are Set To Rise Throughout 2023

Mar 07, 2023 at 09:44 | Irina Slav

Crude oil prices started this week with a loss. The reason for that initial weekly loss came down to overall global economic growth pessimism and expectations that the U.S. Federal…

Middle East Producers Cannot Afford To Significantly Hike Oil Prices

Mar 01, 2023 at 08:45 | Gerald Jansen

As the OPEC+ meeting in the first days of February only confirmed the oil group is intent on maintaining its strategy and will avoid sudden and drastic moves, Saudi Arabia…

What The Business Cycles Tell Us About Oil Prices

Feb 22, 2023 at 10:47 | Alex Kimani

The oil and gas markets are currently in the throes of yet another downturn, with Brent crude down 34% from its May 2022 peak while U.S. Henry Hub natural gas…

U.S. Shale To Set Production Record In March

Feb 14, 2023 at 10:40 | Charles Kennedy

In this week’s newsletter, we will take a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets. 

Oil Prices Continue To Slide On Rising US, EU Inventories

Feb 09, 2023 at 11:45 | Tom Kool

After rebounding by some 5% earlier this week on China demand recovery optimism, crude oil prices have shed over 1% on Thursday, following U.S. inventory data showing increasing…

Why Middle East Producers Cut Prices In The Face Of Soaring Chinese Oil Demand

Jan 30, 2023 at 10:51 | Gerald Jansen

China is back, and even the most ardent skeptics of Beijing’s policy easing will be compelled to admit that there is great upside in global oil demand in 2023. China…

Big Oil Reports Record Profits, But There's A Catch

Jan 30, 2023 at 10:37 | Irina Slav

Big Oil had a record year in 2022, earning billions from the imbalance between oil and gas demand and supply, and from the massive uncertainty that geopolitical events…

Momentum Grows For Oil, But Recession Fears Cap Gains

Jan 26, 2023 at 23:04 | Editorial Dept

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures settled about 2% higher on Thursday on positive U.S. economic data and optimism that global demand will strengthen as top oil importer China…

Why Oil Won’t Trade Above $100 This Year

Jan 26, 2023 at 11:41 | Alex Kimani

After an initial dip, the oil price rally has been a steady grind upwards in the current year, with the last 12 trading days seeing 10 days of…

U.S. Gasoline Prices Continue To Climb

Jan 23, 2023 at 13:05 | Julianne Geiger

Gasoline prices continue to climb for the fourth straight week, rising 32.7 cents over the last month as crude oil prices rise, data from AAA showed on Monday. Gasoline prices…

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