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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 90.61 | -0.79 | -0.86% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 94.55 | -1.05 | -1.10% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 95.31 | -0.42 | -0.44% | ||
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Mars US • 2 hours | 89.29 | +0.91 | +1.03% | ||
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Gasoline • 20 mins | 2.575 | +0.013 | +0.50% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 94.55 | -1.05 | -1.10% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 95.92 | -0.63 | -0.65% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 95.31 | -0.42 | -0.44% |
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Peace Sour • 18 hours | 84.18 | -0.35 | -0.41% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 18 hours | 84.68 | -0.35 | -0.41% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 18 hours | 93.28 | -0.35 | -0.37% | ||
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Central Alberta • 18 hours | 84.18 | -0.35 | -0.41% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 86.16 | -0.35 | -0.40% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 86.25 | -0.25 | -0.29% | ||
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Kansas Common • 19 hours | 80.75 | +0.75 | +0.94% | ||
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Buena Vista • 2 days | 95.63 | -0.10 | -0.10% |
Leonard Hyman & William Tilles
Leonard S. Hyman is an economist and financial analyst specializing in the energy sector. He headed utility equity research at a major brokerage house and has provided advice on industry organization, regulation, privatization, risk management and finance to investment bankers, governments and private firms, including one effort to place nuclear fusion reactors on the moon. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and author, co-author or editor of six books including America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future and Energy Risk Management: A Primer for the Utility Industry.
You can find Leonard Hyman's lastest book Electricity Acts on Amazon
William I. Tilles is a senior industry advisor and speaker on energy and finance. After starting his career at a bond rating agency, he turned to equities and headed utility equity research at two major brokerage houses and then became a portfolio manager investing in long/short global utility equities. For a time he ran the largest long/short utilities equity book in the world. Before going into finance, Mr. Tilles taught political science .
Latest articles from Leonard Hyman & William Tilles
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Maui Fires: A Lesson For Utility Companies?
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Holding Oil Majors? Time To Develop A Long Term Strategy
Not long ago, we argued that oil companies would not invest in alternative energy or electric power because those opportunities were not big enough and…
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Are We Nearing A Fossil Fuel Turning Point?
At some point, fossil fuel sales will stop growing. How soon? You can make the projections, the ones that start with overall demand, and the…
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The Sweetest Spot For Energy Investment
Start with the obvious. You invest to earn a return on your money. And you want your investment to grow faster than the rate of…
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Preparing Your Portfolio For Climate Change And Energy Shifts
When on Wall Street, we made predictions for a living. We tried to predict the implications of events (which we also had to predict) on…
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What Happens If Consumers Lose Confidence In The Electricity Industry?
We all know that banking is a confidence game. As long as depositors believe that the bank has enough money in its vaults (or other…
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Decarbonization Is Happening Faster Than You May Think
You must have seen those zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050 charts by now. They show up in almost every corporate report or presentation. You know, that bar chart that…
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How To Spot Greenwashing In Renewables Investment
By now, we’ve all tired of sanctimonious, box -checking ESG (environmental-social-governance) investors who talk the talk but own clearly unsustainable (to use another favorite word)…
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Leading UK Water Utility Is In Extreme Financial Distress
Privatization with competition was the mantra for 1980s neoconservatives. In the US, they wanted to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and municipal water suppliers.…
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Transmission Problems Pose Risk For Renewables
You can tell what the press agents have to sell by the energy story of the week. A while ago it was small modular nuclear…
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The Debt Ceiling Drama Ended Well For The Energy Industry
The debt ceiling drama (farce?) has ended. Having manufactured a crisis that could have tanked the economy, our legislators solved the problem and took credit…
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Will The EPA's New Power Plant Emissions Rule Make An Impact?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will try again to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, having failed to do so during the Obama administration.…
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Is Clean Energy Really More Expensive Than Traditional Energy?
Judging from the news story, a PR firm had an assignment: to inform the world that clean energy prices exceed dirty energy prices, just as…
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U.S. Electric Utilities Must Spend $12 Trillion To Reach Targets
Wedged in the emails between a pornographic invitation and a special sale offering from a credit card already canceled there it was—an Earth Day greeting…
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How The Oil & Gas Industry Can Prepare For Peak Demand
Not long ago we argued that as a rational business strategy, oil producers should raise prices, hold back production, restrain capital spending and make hay…
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Texas To Incentivize Gas-Fired Peaking Units
A 2019 winter storm, which brought high winds and subzero temperatures to Texas, caused a power grid collapse that blacked out millions of consumers and…
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The Pros And Cons of Modular Nuclear Reactors
Did you ever get the feeling that you’ve seen this movie before, except with another name? The remake, maybe in color this time or with…
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Vogtle Nuclear Unit Begins Producing Power
Last Saturday, April 1, (yes we’re aware of the date) Southern Company’s largest operating subsidiary, Georgia Power, announced that the first of its two nuclear…
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Small Modular Reactors Are Gaining Ground
In terms of technology, the first fifty years of the commercial nuclear power industry in the US was similar to early ice cream choices when…
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U.S. Company Signs Deals In Europe For Small Nuclear Reactors
Last week, Washington, D.C. based Last Energy announced that it had signed agreements in the UK and Poland for thirty four small modular reactors. Frankly,…
