Taking a voyage across the world of energy with ClipperData’s Director of Commodity Research. Follow on Twitter @ClipperData, @mattvsmith01
Today is national ‘reach as high as you can’ day, and it feels like the oil market is getting into the spirit of things, pushing…
One hundred and ten years after the birth of Samuel Beckett, and waiting for a production cut from key oil producers feels like waiting for…
One hundred and eighty-three years after Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe, and the oil market is on fire once more, trailblazing higher. It truly…
Thirty-three years after REM released their debut album, and the crude complex today is being driven by murmurs again. As the producer meeting in Doha…
Two hundred and forty-six years after the birth of William Wordsworth, and the oil prices today are wandering lower (as lonely as a cloud) after…
Today we celebrate polytetrafluoroethylene, for it is national Teflon day. Accordingly, the crude complex is refusing to stick to the script, and is rallying again…
It is Pharrell’s 43rd birthday, and the crude complex appears happy to edge lower once again as production freeze hopes wane. Here are six things…
Four hundred and thirty-five years after Francis Drake circumnavigated the world, and we continue to see the same themes circling the oil market at the…
One hundred and ninety years to the day after Samuel Morey patented the internal combustion engine, and the combination of Saudi rhetoric and a solid…
Twenty-seven years to the day after Guns N’ Roses released the single ‘Patience’ (anyone feel old? Nope? Me neither…), and the crude market is trying…
Twenty-three years to the day after Charlie Brown hit his first home run in the Peanuts comic strip, and crude prices are swinging for the…
One hundred and sixty-eight years to the day after Niagara Falls stopped flowing due to an ice jam, and ongoing skepticism about a coordinated oil…
Two hundred and nineteen years after Nathaniel Briggs first patented a washing machine, and crude continues to spin around the $40 level, unable to make…
Sixty-one years after Tennessee Williams’ play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ debuted on Broadway, and the crude complex is exhibiting traits of the aforementioned…
Two hundred and twenty-two years after Josiah G. Pierson patented the rivet machine, and the oil market remains as riveting as ever. (I’m here all…
News of terror attacks in Belgium have shaken up financial markets and the western world generally. Oil is gauging the sentiment in broader markets and…
Three hundred and thirty-one years after the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the market is once again looking composed, despite its recent push to…
Two hundred and three years after David Melville patented the gas streetlight, and oil prices are lit up once again today. Prices are rallying for…
To mark St. Patrick’s Day, the crude bulls have the luck of the Irish, as prices push on the green. As hopes of a production…
It is Eric Estrada’s 67th birthday, and accordingly, key oil producers are once again looking to police the oil market, reviving hopes of a production…