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Buying Volatility: Good Or Bad Idea?

Oct 16, 2015 at 15:38 | Kurt Cobb

Wall Street’s buying of options--options on stocks, on commodities, on currencies, on almost anything--has been seen as a sucker's bet (unless you are doing it to…

Looking For Bargains? This Profitable E&P Company Is A Good Place To Start

Oct 16, 2015 at 14:25 | Martin Tillier

For most oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) companies the last year or so has been about survival. The spectacular collapse in oil prices has been followed by a…

Bearish Signals Quickly Kill Off Oil Price Rally

Oct 16, 2015 at 13:09 | Evan Kelly

Oil prices retreated this week, retracing most of the gains achieved last week, putting crude nearly back where it started before the latest rally. WTI dropped to $46 per barrel…

Oman Invited To The Table At Next Week’s OPEC Meeting

Oct 16, 2015 at 10:06 | Matt Smith

Two hundred and twenty-two years after the death of Marie Antoinette, and the crude complex is trying not to lose its head. After a week of…

VW’s Dieselgate Scandal Could Cost Up To $87 Billion In Total

Oct 15, 2015 at 16:50 | Gaurav Agnihotri

 The Volkswagen emission scandal (commonly known as Dieselgate) has shocked the entire world. It all began on September 18, 2015 when the German carmaker was charged for violating the Clean…

U.S. Shale Is Too Adaptive For The Saudis To Kill

Oct 15, 2015 at 16:38 | Metal Miner

 Saudi Arabia is taking a massive gamble on the world oil markets. Their “pump at any price” policy has driven oil down to below $50 per barrel and, so far,…

Is The Oil And Gas Fire Sale About To Start?

Oct 15, 2015 at 16:29 | Tom Kool

Much has been written about the mounting pile of debt for U.S. oil companies (not to mention the well-known Brazilian oil giant).Not that long ago, many…

U.S. Crude Inventory Build Stuns Oil Markets

Oct 15, 2015 at 10:11 | Matt Smith

One hundred and seventy-one years after the birth of Nietzsche, and oil prices are gazing into the abyss. For yesterday’s weekly API report yielded a whopping +9.3 million barrel build…

Iran Could Trigger A Resource War On Several Fronts Other Than Oil

Oct 14, 2015 at 16:58 | Gaurav Agnihotri

As has already been discussed at length, once the economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union on Iran begin to be lifted next year, there is…

Canadian Utilities Embarking On Asset Acquisition Strategy In U.S.

Oct 14, 2015 at 16:47 | Michael McDonald

One of the most interesting by-products of the recovery since Financial Crisis has been the rapid inflation of a variety of different types of assets. As the Fed has kept…

Weak Economic Data Hamstrings Oil Rally

Oct 14, 2015 at 10:13 | Matt Smith

One-hundred-and-twenty-one years after the birth of E.E. Cummings, and the crude complex is just like one of his poems – undecided about where it is going next. The crude complex…

Midweek Sector Update: Not Everyone Is Convinced By The Current Oil Price Rally

Oct 13, 2015 at 15:45 | Evan Kelly

The rally in oil prices – jumping by around 10 percent in a week – took a breather at the start of this week, as the markets began to digest…

IEA Predicts A Dip In Crude Demand Growth Next Year

Oct 13, 2015 at 10:31 | Matt Smith

Thirty-five years to the day after AC/DC’s ‘Back in Black‘ went platinum, and storm clouds are returning to darken financial markets once more. Jumping right into overnight action, Chinese economic…

China To Continue Expanding Its Influence In The Oil And Gas Sector

Oct 12, 2015 at 16:42 | John Manfreda

Since 2009, China has been taking a much more active role in its pursuit of international oil contracts. In 2009, for the first time, Saudi Arabia exported more of its…

OPEC Thinks Oil Prices Have Bottomed

Oct 12, 2015 at 09:57 | Matt Smith

Happy Columbus Day! While most markets are open in the U.S., our friends in the North are closed today to celebrate Thanksgiving, while both Japanese and Brazilian markets are also…

Macroeconomic Instability For Emerging Markets Thanks To Commodity Bust

Oct 09, 2015 at 16:42 | Nick Cunningham

The bust in commodity prices is sending ripples through the world of emerging markets.Countries depending on resource extraction and exports of commodities have run into a brick wall…

Shedding Some Light On U.S. Energy Consumption

Oct 09, 2015 at 16:24 | Michael McDonald

For an industry that has remained mostly unchanged throughout the twentieth century, lighting has seen a remarkable amount of turmoil and transition since 2000. Incandescent bulbs have been the standard…

Another High Risk, High Reward, Short Term Trade

Oct 09, 2015 at 15:55 | Martin Tillier

Now that oil, as represented by WTI, has jumped above $50 and trades such as the Petrobras (PBR) purchase that I recommended a couple of weeks ago are showing a…

This Week In Energy: Can This Current Rally Last?

Oct 09, 2015 at 14:48 | Evan Kelly

After weeks of floundering in the mid-$40s per barrel, a new rally for crude oil got underway this week. WTI jumped to $50 per barrel and Brent is now over…

Strong Rally In Global Equities To End The Week

Oct 09, 2015 at 11:05 | Matt Smith

With a hat-tip to birthday boy Scott Bakula, risk-on markets have made a quantum leap higher this week, and are continuing this trend today. Broader markets are full of the…

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