Two negative views of the oil market–and one’s from OPEC
It will take more than a year, and perhaps several years, for oil demand to recover to what it was before the coronavirus pandemic, said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency ahead of Thursday's update on energy markets. Crude demand of...
Oil plunges on futures market on panic over expiring May futures contract
Warning: This is going to be a little "insider baseball. As of 1:30 p.m. the quoted price on Bloomberg of U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate was 80.02% to $3.65 a barrel. On the other hand, international benchmark Brent crude was down"just" 5.80% to $26.45 a...
U.S. benchmark oil falls below $20 a barrel on largest increase ever in U.S. inventories
U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell below $20 a barrel, the lowest price since 2002, after the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a huge jump of almost 20 million barrels in U.S. crude inventories. At 1:00 P.m. New York time West Texas...
Oil deal gets a shrug from the oil markets
This take from Goldman Sachs pretty much sums up the oil market's reaction to Sunday's agreement among OPEC+, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and various and sundry G20 oil producers to cut what could be generously calculated as 14.7 million barrels a day from the...
Trick or Trend: Is Sunday’s oil deal enough? Probably not
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Sunday this week) Trick or Trend looks at what might (or might not) be emerging investible trends. Exclusively on JAM. This post won't run anywhere else. Ever. Do this...
Watch out for a wild Thursday (and maybe even Wednesday)
The U.S. stock markets are closed on Friday, April 10, for Good Friday. That sets up a short week and a long weekend--which would be likely to produce higher than normal volume and volatility on Thursday anyway as traders and investors bought and sold to position...
Trick or trend: Not so fast on an end to the Saudi-Russian oil price war
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Saturday this week) Trick or Trend looks at what might (or might not) be emerging investible trends. Exclusively on JAM. This post won't run anywhere else. Ever. A meeting...
Saudis ramp up oil production
 The first tankers in what looks like a long fleet of tankers are loading now in Saudi Arabia on their way to Europe and the United States in April. The Saudi government looks to be making good on its announced increase in output to a record 12.3 million barrels a day...
Oil hits an 18-year low–worse to come as world runs out of storage
As of noon New York time, today March 30, U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell another 5.67% to $20.29 a barrel. International benchmark Brent dropped 9.83% to $22.45 a barrel. That's an 18-year low for oil. And worse is yet to come. The world has run out of...
Oil rig count drops, pain to get worse
The U.S. oil and natural gas industry idled 40 more drilling rigs this week. That brings the U.S. total to 59 rigs idled in the last two weeks, almost 9% of the rig total. Worse yet, more than half of the idled rigs were in the Permian basin of West Texas. That...
S&P 500 drops 15% for the week
Let me emphasize that "for the week." The storm of bad news continued today with the European Union saying that the 2020 recession in that bloc may be as bad as 2009. Goldman Sachs warned that the U.S. economy may shrink 24% year over year in the second quarter. Oil...Jim’s Stock Alerts
Download Jim’s eBook for Free
