Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The frontier between Lebanon and Israel has become an intense second front in the Hamas-Israel conflict, which threatens to intensify though…
Thursday's Market Action Reflects Fed's Rate Move Oil markets witnessed notable activity on Thursday, directly responding to the Federal Reserve's stance on interest rates. Brent…
1. 2024 Demand Outlook Remains Murky as Forecasters Contradict One Another- As political narratives continue to shape the oil market’s sentiment about next year, two…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict While Israel’s Tamar gas field remains shut down due to the conflict with Hamas, Israeli gas flows to Egypt have now…
One of the things that has always appealed to me about the energy sector from a trading and investing perspective is that it usually isn’t…
Israel shot down a Houthi missile over the Red Sea on Monday, employing its Arrow aerial defense system. This follows the US Navy’s shooting down…
You don’t have to be a Nobel Prize winner in economics to know that the two basic influences on the price of oil, or any…
When it discovered the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields offshore in the Mediterranean’s Levant Basin, Israel gained lots of regional diplomatic leverage overnight. Soon, it…
1. US Lifts Sanctions on Venezuela for Six Months- The US will temporarily lift sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector as Caracas promised to work with…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The Biden Administration has moved to lift sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry under the guise of concessions from the Maduro regime,…
Regardless of any possible involvement of Iran in the attacks on Israel last weekend, which resulted in an Israeli declaration of war, Hamas found itself…
1. ExxonMobil-Pioneer Merger May Spark Further Giant Deals- The largest upstream deal since Shell’s 2015 acquisition of BG for $82 billion, ExxonMobil’s acquisition of Pioneer…
Earnings season, the gift that keeps on giving for US stock traders and investors, is underway, with results for the quarter that ended at the…
December West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures experienced a volatile week, with prices swaying due to geopolitical tensions and shifts in supply and demand…
1. Q3 Earnings Calls to Focus on Capex Direction and Cost Management- The news of ExxonMobil being in advanced talks to purchase US shale producer…
Market Tremors US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and international benchmark Brent crude oil are on edge as a sudden decline in prices…
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Amid an easing of sanctions on Venezuela and Chevron’s return to production, Maduro is taking advantage of the situation to quash…
On the Ukraine war front, there has been another uptick in saber-rattling between Moscow and Washington this week. Both events carry a fair amount of…
Just about every trader has some stocks, currency pairs, or commodities that, no matter what, they just don’t seem to ever get right. Even when…
1. Unprecedentedly Low Cushing Stocks Jeopardize Hub Operations- Oil prices have been greatly boosted by crude inventories in Cushing, the delivery point for US WTI…