Taking a voyage across the world of energy with ClipperData’s Director of Commodity Research. Follow on Twitter @ClipperData, @mattvsmith01
One hundred and six years after the birth of Luise Rainer, and oil continues in its enthralling escapade – trying to muster a bounce for…
Fifty-two years after Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” became the first country album to top the US pop album chart, and the crude complex is…
This morning’s fanfare is not only for the first Nonfarm Friday of the year, but also in honor of David Bowie’s 69th birthday). And sure…
It is Dustin Diamond’s 39th birthday today, and accordingly the crude complex is screeching lower – fast approaching the roaring $20s. Blink and you would…
On SuperChef Nigella Lawson’s 56th birthday, the crude complex has all the ingredients for a rampant sell-off. Despite the ongoing tension in the Middle East,…
In honor of Bradley Cooper’s 41st birthday, the crude complex is suffering from a hangover – unable to muster a rally after yesterday’s whipsawing sell-off.…
Three hundred and seventy-three years after the birth of Sir Isaac Newton, and the crude complex is gravitating higher to start 2016. Newton said that…
One hundred and three years after the first street cars were employed in San Francisco, California, and the crude complex is once again on a…
Seventy-eight years after Walt Disney released the first full-length animated feature, and seven factors in today’s crude complex are dwarfing crude prices. Happy – Let’s…
Welcome to national ‘Answer the phone like Buddy the Elf‘ day (please act accordingly). Despite the current festive backdrop, Christmas cheer continues to be distinctly…
One hundred-and-twelve years after the first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight by the Wright Brothers, and the crude complex is trying to gain ground after yesterday’s…
Sixty-nine years after the birth of ABBA’s Benny Andersson, and the name of the game for the crude complex today is to navigate the tricky…
Today is national cat herder day, which seems appropriate for the crude complex, as prices are wandering all over the place. Markets remain distracted by…
Five hundred and twelve years after the birth of Nostradamus, and financial markets remain just as ever hard to predict. The crude complex, however, is…
Thirty-four years after Muhammad Ali fought his last fight, the crude complex is on the canvas once more. Today’s knockout blow comes courtesy of the…
One hundred and eighty-five years after the birth of American poet Emily Dickinson, and OPEC has been waxing lyrical today in its latest monthly oil…
Into the second week of the month we go, and we see the usual dearth of economic data that follows Nonfarm Friday. The only release…
Given it is ‘National Dice Day’, it is apt that OPEC has left it to chance how the market will react to an adjustment to…
Eighty-five years after the birth of French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and the crude complex is acting suitably surreal today. As expected, rhetoric is ratcheting up…
Forty-eight years to the day after David Bowie’s first single ‘Rubber Band‘ was released (??!!), and the crude complex is being stretched to the downside…