On the one hand, artificial…
The tanker market is likely…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There has been a lot of skepticism about the future size of the energy storage business especially amid Tesla’s announcement earlier this year that it…
After delays, strikes, and cost overruns, the Panama Canal expansion is finally set to open in April 2016. But the global energy landscape has changed in…
There's one thing resource downturns are good for: seeing which projects and regions are the strongest in industry. And we got another big indication this week…
Goodness, gracious! ‘Great Balls of Fire‘ was recorded some 58 years ago today, and is an apt way to describe the 8-14 day outlook from NOAA,…
Saudi Arabia has been in the line of fire for not reducing the production levels of OPEC since November 2014. By defying the international pressure to…
The U.S. Justice Department touted its historic settlement with BP over charges related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. BP will be forced to…
Given it is such a colorful day in markets today, let’s do some painting by numbers to get a more complete picture of what is going…