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• Oil Moves Higher, But Traders Remain Cautious

  Published 11 September 2019 | viewed 6,602 times

  Oil prices legged higher to begin the week after the new Saudi Energy Minister confirmed his arrival would not bring a shift in OPEC policy.…

• Oil Fails To Gain Traction In Rattled Markets

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 7,116 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate and International-benchmark Brent crude oil futures are trading higher for the week, but have given up more than half of their…

• Is Argentina Set For Another Debt Default?

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 7,253 times

  Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict - Will it or won’t it default? That’s the hedge on Argentina right now, and it’s of more concern to investors…

• Why You Should ‘Sell’ The OPEC Meeting This Time Around

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 10,497 times

  There are very few reliable patterns in any market, let alone the volatile oil markets. There is, however, one thing that seems to happen more…

• The Lesson Oil Markets Will Never Learn

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 8,727 times

  Oil prices rallied nicely earlier this week on optimism surrounding US-China trade war talks, but lessons here are never learned by the market, which is…

• Global EV Sales Decline For The First Time Ever

  Published 06 September 2019 | viewed 7,724 times

  Friday, September 6, 2019 1. Oil surplus not going away - The oil market could see a supply surplus and inventory builds for the next…

• Trade War Impasse Keeps Oil Prices From Rising

  Published 04 September 2019 | viewed 5,275 times

  The first week of September continued on the course set by August, most of the market motion can be boiled down to the US-China trade…

• Revolutionizing Latin American Oil Flows

  Published 04 September 2019 | viewed 4,675 times

  In the past two weeks, we have analyzed the prospects of US crude exports to Europe and Asia, both with its region-specific challenges yet both…

• Does It Matter Who Heads Saudi Aramco?

  Published 04 September 2019 | viewed 6,320 times

  In just a few short days, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih had two major powers stripped away. Saudi Arabia split off the Ministry of…

• What A Trade Deal Would Mean For Oil

  Published 04 September 2019 | viewed 10,383 times

  Oil prices shifted lower to start the week on the back of a fresh round of tariffs placed by Trump on Chinese goods, another contraction-territory…

• A Bullish Nudge For Oil

  Published 30 August 2019 | viewed 11,789 times

  October West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are in a position to finish higher for the week after a weak trade on Monday. The weakness…

• The Obvious Play For This White House Policy Change

  Published 30 August 2019 | viewed 5,689 times

  Attempting to trade based on pronouncements and policies coming from the Trump administration can leave many people scratching their heads. I have pointed out on…

• The End Of An Era For Alaskan Oil

  Published 30 August 2019 | viewed 10,572 times

  Friday August 30, 2019 1. BP exits Alaska, ending 6 decades of operations- BP (NYSE: BP) agreed to sell its Alaska operations to privately-held Hilcorp…

• What’s Coming Up In The Oil Patch?

  Published 30 August 2019 | viewed 13,259 times

  Coming up .. what to watch in the oil patch - Apache is gearing up to drill its first exploration well in Block 58, offshore…

• OPEC’s Only Hope

  Published 30 August 2019 | viewed 12,484 times

  The trade war continues to weigh heavily on the oil market as forecasts paint a gloomier picture for oil prices with every passing week. This…

• The Fight For The World’s Hottest Crude Market

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 4,617 times

  Last week we have looked into the rise of US crude exports to Europe, an upsurge characterized by seasonal upswings, a rather non-uniform spread of…

• The Battle For Libya’s Oil Bounty

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 9,212 times

  The Powerful Vultures Circling Libya General Khalifa Haftar grossly underestimated the extent that external forces would clamor for Libya’s natural resource bounty once he unleashed…

• Trade Wars: It’s Time To Dial It Down A Bit

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 4,323 times

  Remember when oil markets used to be driven by oil headlines? What quaint times. We used to write about things like Middle East supply outages,…

• Strong Downstream Demand Supports Oil Markets

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 5,479 times

  The spiraling tensions between the United States and China have rocked the crude market, reinforcing concerns that global demand growth might turn even weaker than…

• New Trade War Escalation Sends Shockwaves Through Oil Markets

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 11,382 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures erased all of its early gains and are now in a position to finish the week lower amid…