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• Is U.S. Shale Finally Cash Flow Positive?

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 13,701 times

  Friday, August 23, 2019 1. Shale ekes out slight positive cash flow - The U.S. shale industry may have posted a very slight positive cash…

• Buying The Dip In The Markets

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 7,613 times

  Sometimes, trading demands putting your own views aside and going with the odds. For those whose experience is based on the Hollywood version of trading…

• The Billion Dollar Oil Hedge That May Never Happen

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 8,934 times

  Remember August 1st? That’s when Trump announced new tariffs on China and oil took its biggest plunge in four years… and now the final week…

• Washington Threatens Greece In Tanker Seizure Saga

  Published 23 August 2019 | viewed 28,666 times

  Politics, Geopolitical & Conflict - Iran and the US continue to trade barbs over the tanker seizures near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s recently released…

• Oil Bears Shouldn’t Bet On A Global Economic Meltdown

  Published 21 August 2019 | viewed 4,770 times

  Markets convulsed at the end of last week after a weak GDP print in Germany and slowing industrial production data from China caused a flight…

• A Very Fragile Balance In Oil Markets

  Published 21 August 2019 | viewed 4,432 times

  Against the background of the United States softening its rhetoric vis-à-vis Huawei and Saudi Arabia taking matters into its own hands in cutting export rates…

• The US Light Crude Wave In Europe

  Published 21 August 2019 | viewed 9,117 times

  As any attentive reader of our Oil & Gas Insider feature would attest, the oil market is in constant flux and one nation’s fate might…

• The Anti-Iran Alliance Is Cracking

  Published 21 August 2019 | viewed 10,365 times

  Rosneft’s Sanctions Hedge Play One of the key underpinnings of US global economic power is the use of the US dollar for global trade transactions,…

• Can Oil Markets Withstand Recession Fears?

  Published 16 August 2019 | viewed 10,790 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate and international-benchmark Brent crude oil futures are trading nearly flat for the week as fears of recession are leading to increasing…

• Imagining A Global Solar Empire

  Published 16 August 2019 | viewed 10,118 times

  Another rocky week for oil prices, with $4 per barrel swings in both WTI and Brent over the course of just a few days. While…

• Shale Bankruptcies Are On The Rise

  Published 16 August 2019 | viewed 25,284 times

  Friday, August 16, 2019 1. Oil highly sensitive to trade war- Oil prices have whipsawed in recent weeks, gyrating on every whim and whisper relating…

• A Limited Risk Play In A Shaken Market

  Published 16 August 2019 | viewed 6,609 times

  It has been another crazy week in the stock market as traders have reacted to a signal of impending recession sent by U.S. Treasuries. At…

• Oil Markets Dominated By Bearish Sentiment

  Published 16 August 2019 | viewed 17,029 times

  Markets - China’s oil imports from the United States may fall sharply over the next few weeks as the trade war between the two continues…

• A New War In Yemen

  Published 14 August 2019 | viewed 12,176 times

  The New War in Yemen Isn’t About Iran Separatists backed by the UAE have taken control of Yemen’s port of Aden, all government military camps…

• Oil Is At The Center Of The 2020 Elections

  Published 14 August 2019 | viewed 8,830 times

  Donald Trump faces an interesting set of economic and geopolitical circumstances heading into the 2020 election. The President would obviously like the US to be…

• Is Argentina’s Shale Boom Safe?

  Published 14 August 2019 | viewed 6,559 times

  Premature judgments about the fall of Latin America’s left notwithstanding, the pink tide seems to be back in town after Argentina’s national primaries (effectively a…

• Oil Markets Battle For Stability

  Published 14 August 2019 | viewed 5,862 times

  Last week’s fear and uncertainty in oil markets appears to have turned a bit more upbeat this week as oil producers tried to avoid a…

• Is An Oil Price Recovery In The Making?

  Published 09 August 2019 | viewed 17,644 times

  U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading lower for the week, but a rally on Friday has helped the market erase most of…

• The Next Step In Trump’s Trade War

  Published 09 August 2019 | viewed 15,905 times

  Markets - Last week we saw the Treasury Department sanction its first Chinese oil trader - Zhuhai Zhenrong over crude oil purchases from Iran. The…

• Oil's Unstoppable Bear Market

  Published 09 August 2019 | viewed 14,687 times

  Global Energy Advisory As the trade war between China and the US sparks even lower oil demand growth forecasts from analysts far and wide, not…