Higher oil prices are expected…
The fluctuating prices in response…
Will oil go below $20? Jeffrey Currie, the head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, said on Bloomberg TV on Tuesday that he wouldn’t be…
Retail gasoline prices have dipped below $2 per gallon across the United States. But gas might drop below $1 per gallon soon in some places of…
“It is very hard to see how oil prices can rise significantly in the short term.” For oil prices, the “short term risk to the downside…
Recently, I dedicated some time studying in much further depth the explosion in volatility in the broader market as well as in underlying stocks. We…
The prospects for an emergency OPEC meeting to initiate coordinated production cuts took a hit this weekend. Venezuela’s oil minister Eulogio del Pino flew to Riyadh to meet with Saudi…
As energy investors look for reasons to be optimistic, many are keeping close tabs on supply figures. There are some signs that supply is taking a…
It has been another wild week for those of us that track and trade the oil market. It started with a two day decline of nearly…
Oil speculators spent the latter half of 2015 with an incredibly pessimistic view of the trajectory for oil prices. Speculators piled into short positions, pushing net-shorts…
March Crude Oil Analysis If you’re watching crude oil prices every day, you will probably say the market is volatile, choppy and directionless. If you’re watching it on a weekly…
As I have explained previously, the main drivers for a sustained oil price recovery – if we shove aside all the media noise and fundamentals…
Oil prices surged by midday on Wednesday on comments from Russian officials hinting at possible coordination with OPEC on production cuts in an effort to arrest…
The biggest result from the collapse in oil prices could be a future price spike. Oil prices at $30 per barrel have put most producers under…
We begin with a quick look at some of the critical figures and data in the energy markets this week before looking at some of the key market movers and…
There’s an old saying in journalism that goes, “Never let the facts ruin a good story.” This accurately describes what should be called The Incredible Shrinking…
March Crude Oil Analysis This week starts with March Crude Oil futures in basically the same position as last week. The main trend is down according to the weekly swing…
Geopolitical risk premiums are likely to return to oil markets as the possibility of an attack on a large petroleum facility grows significantly amid rising…
Investors trying to decide how to approach the oil markets in 2016 have a fundamental conundrum to deal with, and that is whose views they should…
Fundamentals point toward market balance but pessimism is dragging oil prices down. IEA has apparently succumbed to this negativity but their data suggests that things are…
A person often reads that low oil prices–for example, $30 per barrel oil prices–will stimulate the economy, and the economy will soon bounce back. What is wrong with this story?…
When Goldman Sachs first postulated that oil prices might fall to as little as $20 per barrel, many market participants were incredulous. Fast forward a…