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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 87.12 | +0.03 | +0.03% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.87 | +0.67 | +0.76% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% | ||
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Mars US • 173 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.735 | +0.010 | +0.35% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.87 | +0.67 | +0.76% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.45 | +0.81 | +0.91% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% |
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Peace Sour • 10 hours | 76.56 | +1.46 | +1.94% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 10 hours | 79.61 | +1.46 | +1.87% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 10 hours | 86.56 | +1.46 | +1.72% | ||
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Central Alberta • 10 hours | 76.96 | +1.46 | +1.93% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.33 | -0.29 | -0.36% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 5 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 1 day | 73.50 | +0.50 | +0.68% | ||
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Buena Vista • 2 days | 87.02 | -0.29 | -0.33% |
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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Will Activist Investors Succeed In Transforming ExxonMobil?
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U.S. Utilities Could Face Slew Of Climate Lawsuits
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The Electricity Crisis Is A Major Problem For California's Governor
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The Largest Oil Lobby In America Is Now Backing A Carbon Tax
The American Petroleum Institute (API) now advocates a carbon tax? We had to read the API’s press release twice to make sure we were reading…
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Who’s To Blame For The Expensive Energy Bills In Texas?
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The $7 Trillion Cost Of Upgrading The U.S. Power Grid
We have just witnessed the damage caused by poorly designed energy grids—rolling blackouts, skyrocketing electricity prices, people sleeping in their cars and in one insulated…
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Who’s To Blame For The Texas Power Crisis?
Our last report focused on the uniqueness of the Texas wholesale electricity market, ERCOT, and how it was specifically designed to evade federal utility regulation.…
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What The Media Isn’t Telling You About Texas Blackouts
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How Bad Was Big Oil’s Earnings Season?
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Electricity Market Set For A Major Rebound
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Why Decarbonization Could Make Strategic Sense For Oil Majors
Can oil companies profitably transform themselves into low carbon, green enterprises? That is a big question for investors. We have already noted that green investments…
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Why Oil Companies Can’t Replace Oil Profits With Renewable Profits
Last week we argued in Oilprice.com (“Can Renewables Become As Profitable As Oil and Gas?”, January 5, 2021) that oil companies could not maintain their…
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Brexit Creates Major Problem For UK Energy Companies
In the international electricity markets, countries fall into one of three categories: those that provide adequately for their needs like the US, those with excess…
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Can Renewables Become As Profitable As Oil And Gas?
Here’s the question for oil industry investors. Can oil companies scale up clean energy enterprises to replace business lost from a decline in fossil fuel…
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Upheaval In Big Oil’s Board Rooms
A bevy of Royal Dutch Shell’s top clean energy executives picked up and resigned from the energy giant. They quit shortly before Shell was scheduled…
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Decarbonizing U.S. Utilities: The Money Talks
If policy makers in Washington wanted to hasten the demise of coal fired electric generating stations, they could not have done a better job. What…
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How Fast Will The Electric Industry Exit Coal?
What do Siemens, General Electric and Toshiba have in common— other than the obvious: they are global manufacturers of electrical equipment? The answer is that…
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Why U.S. Politics Don’t Impact Energy
Let’s assume a likely so called political gridlock scenario in Washington DC with a Biden Presidency and Republican control of the Senate. Conventional Wall Street…
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Oil Poised To Rebound, But What About The Long Term?
Oil bulls predict demand for oil will snap back quickly as global economic conditions improve. The International Energy Agency (IEA), on the other hand, expects…
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Will Clean Energy Policies Actually Create More Jobs?
Here’s the claim. The Green New Deal and all those other supposedly anti-fossil fuel policies will destroy jobs. One Fox News report claimed 3.4 million…
