Dian L. Chu

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• Why are Oil Inventories Down if Production is Increasing and Demand is Falling?

  Published 16 July 2013 | viewed 15,236 times

  The 20 Million Drawdown in a sluggish economyThe last two weeks oil inventories fell by a record 20 million barrels, this event has never happened…

• Indications that Oil will be the Next Commodity to Crash

  Published 01 July 2013 | viewed 9,684 times

  We have seen how Gold and Silver were viciously attacked by the shorts this past week, and surprisingly Oil escaped the carnage which is interesting…

• Exxon’s Bakken Expansion is Rewarded as USGS Doubles Reserves Estimate

  Published 08 June 2013 | viewed 8,154 times

  The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently released an updated oil and gas resource estimate on the Bakken formation, which covers parts of Montana, North Dakota…

• Oil Markets at the Whim of Power Players

  Published 23 May 2013 | viewed 5,778 times

  Most markets these days are manipulated to some extent, and this is nothing new if we look back through the history of financial markets. But…

• Lack of Transport Causes Short Term Problems for US Oil Industry

  Published 02 April 2013 | viewed 14,813 times

  Oil is again climbing toward $100 a barrel and consumers are paying more than ever at the pump. Even natural gas prices have climbed off…

• Is the Equities Market Set for Another Boom?

  Published 16 March 2013 | viewed 3,681 times

  One of the things that keeps traders trading - apart from money, of course - is the power the markets have to astonish. For what…

• Analysing the Trends in the Natural Gas Market

  Published 25 February 2013 | viewed 6,956 times

  Near-term Double TopNatural Gas closed Friday at $3.35 per mmBtu and has been on a three month downtrend from the $4 level where it put…

• Reasons Why the Oil Market is the Same as the S&P 500

  Published 14 February 2013 | viewed 4,589 times

  Portraits from the Dark Period"The price has nothing to do with a shortage of oil. There's a lot of oil on the market. It's because…

• WTI-Brent Spread to Grow as Oil Inventories at Cushing Increase

  Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 8,658 times

  Seaway Pipeline or Garden HoseThis is hilarious if prices weren`t so damn high, but despite a robust export market for finished products, crude oil is…

• US Citizens are Paying for Venezuelan Socialism with High Pump Prices

  Published 11 February 2013 | viewed 8,139 times

  The gasoline market is well supplied, but if it weren`t for gasoline exports, the united states would have much cheaper gasoline, and the economy would…

• Obama Makes no Attempt to Curb High Oil Prices after Elections

  Published 06 February 2013 | viewed 9,049 times

  I guess the SPR Threat was politically motivatedWhen Oil and Gas prices were last at these levels President Obama utilized the threat of releasing the…

• Why Delta Airlines are Ruing the Day they Bought their own Refinery

  Published 05 February 2013 | viewed 23,385 times

  Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), the world’s biggest energy company by market cap, reported its 4Q profit at a five-year high boosted by its refining…

• Peter Schiff is Selling Gold, Maybe you Should too!

  Published 02 February 2013 | viewed 6,242 times

  Where are all the Gold Bugs?The decline in GDP saw gold and silver spike yesterday with the thought that the fed will still be around…

• Economic Recovery is Impossible Whilst Oil and Gas are Risk On Assets

  Published 30 January 2013 | viewed 6,304 times

  Gas Prices Pegged to Risk On TradeAs long as gas prices are pegged to the market rally in equities and the currencies in the Risk…

• Green Cars May Lead to Higher Taxes

  Published 24 January 2013 | viewed 6,352 times

  Energy and environment conservation has been high on every nation’s agenda probably even before the oil crisis in the 1970s.  Green cars such as hybrids…

• Using Electricity Usage Data to Determine China's Real Growth Figures

  Published 21 January 2013 | viewed 16,695 times

  China`s 4th Quarter China`s economy grew 7.9% for the fourth quarter of 2012, signaling to some that China might be rebounding from a two-year downtrend…

• Oil Glut at Cushing Storage Facility not Helped by Seaway Pipeline Expansion

  Published 17 January 2013 | viewed 15,987 times

  The weekly EIA report came out today and one of the noteworthy data points was the Cushing, Oklahoma storage numbers. Already at a record, Cushing…

• US to Cut Volumes of Imported Oil by Using Natural Gas to Power Rigs, not Diesel

  Published 16 January 2013 | viewed 10,417 times

  With China slowing down, and a recessionary GDP projection (below 3%) for the developed world in the next two years or so, many analysts are…

• To Prevent Market Manipulation Physical Delivery should be Enforced

  Published 15 January 2013 | viewed 6,797 times

  “Risk On” ModeIt is pretty obvious that there is a lot of liquidity in the system, with the Fed`s loose monetary policy, extremely low interest…

• Why are Banks Allowed to Manipulate the Oil Markets?

  Published 11 January 2013 | viewed 27,607 times

  When is this country going to say enough is enough and start putting people in jail for this kind of blatant market manipulation? It is…