Energy / Energy-General

Oct 02, 2015 at 13:41 | Evan Kelly

Despite the volatility, which has become the norm, oil prices close out the week not much changed from Monday. After growing evidence that U.S. supply was contracting, the EIA reported…

Oct 02, 2015 at 10:32 | Matt Smith

Ok folks, here are five factors to consider on this first Friday in October: 1) It is Nonfarm Friday, and official US employment data has just…

Oct 01, 2015 at 17:17 | Colin Chilcoat

Primary season doesn’t begin for another 4 months, and the general election is still more than a year out. Undoubtedly, no lead is safe, but the…

Oct 01, 2015 at 16:31 | Gaurav Agnihotri

There is a trend that is emerging in the energy sector that has the potential to change the way consumers purchase their fuel in coming years.…

Oct 01, 2015 at 10:59 | Charles Kennedy

On September 30, a federal judge struck down the U.S. Department of Interior’s regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a blow to the Obama administration’s efforts at putting…

Oct 01, 2015 at 10:50 | Matt Smith

Eighty-seven years to the day after Duke Ellington recorded ‘The Mooche’, and China is mooching off for a five-day holiday after delivering some better-than-expected manufacturing data.…

Sep 30, 2015 at 16:07 | Michael McDonald

Few potential investments out there are as divisive as Tesla. On one side, bulls see the electric vehicle maker as a fundamentally different kind of car company and one that…

Sep 30, 2015 at 10:15 | Charles Kennedy

The ongoing slump in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to retrench and bring home tens of billions of dollars that it has overseas. Bloomberg

Sep 30, 2015 at 10:07 | Matt Smith

And there is an exciting day in store on this final day of Q3, with all manner of information to digest. Japan kicked things off overnight,…

Sep 29, 2015 at 17:11 | Nick Cunningham

Argentina has often been held up as the next most likely location for a shale revolution, with some of the largest shale oil and gas reserves in the world.

Sep 29, 2015 at 13:08 | Evan Kelly

The major news from the week is Royal Dutch Shell’s (NYSE: RDS.A) decision to scrap its Arctic drilling program. The future of oil development in the U.S. Arctic depended heavily…

Sep 29, 2015 at 10:16 | Matt Smith

Despite dark clouds hanging over the commodity complex, crude prices are rebounding thus far after yesterday’s clobbering. We have had quite the data deluge overnight, led by a late-month flood…

Sep 28, 2015 at 10:25 | Matt Smith

While it is a quiet start to the week on the economic data front, the crude complex is having a boisterous beginning. Oil is charging lower…

Sep 25, 2015 at 17:45 | Gaurav Agnihotri

Volatile oil prices and rising greenhouse emissions are contributing to increasing interest in alternatives to the conventional internal combustion engine-based cars, and auto makers like Mitsubishi,…

Sep 25, 2015 at 17:34 | Michael McDonald

Amid all of the stock market volatility in recent weeks an enormous amount of attention has been focused on the energy sector and the daily volatility in that group. And…

Sep 25, 2015 at 17:25 | Yale Global

Around the world, businesses act overwhelmingly in favor of not only removing all sanctions on Iran, but keeping them off irrespective of the Joint Comprehensive Plan…

Sep 25, 2015 at 13:53 | Evan Kelly

Iran announced a decision to push back a key oil conference where it had planned to reveal new contracts for doing business in Iranian oil fields. The London conference,…

Sep 24, 2015 at 17:19 | Steve Brown

Brazil is cleaning up its act, the national oil company, Petrobras, and its contractors are being dragged through a car wash. The country, the company…

Sep 24, 2015 at 10:49 | Matt Smith

We have now tumbled into fall, although you wouldn’t know it by looking at the weather forecast. As NOAA’s 8-14 day outlook illustrates, we are set…

Sep 23, 2015 at 17:12 | David Yager

The latest catch phrase to enter the lexicon of the oilpatch is “lower for longer.” One assumes it simply means oil prices are down and will…