The shift in Fed Chair…
Oil markets were looking forward…
China is on track to…
Washington is gearing up to tighten sanctions on Iran, again, at the same time as new revelations emerge indicating that Iran was caught unaware when Hamas attacked Israel…
1. Can We Get a Little Contango Now?- China’s swelling oil inventories and weakening crude…
Crude Oil Market Overview The current state of the crude oil market is marked by a downward trend, with both the international benchmark Brent crude and the U.S. benchmark WTI…
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 Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Nasrallah avoided…
I have said it many times before in these pages and will no doubt say it many times in the future too, but it is often the case that a…
Some 450,000 barrels per day of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq remain shut in amid an intractable dispute over who should control the region’s…
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 crude futures rallied by…
1. 2024 Demand Outlook Remains Murky as Forecasters Contradict One Another- As political narratives continue…
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 resumed (according to Bloomberg sources)…
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 correlated with the US stock…
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 of Houthi missiles…
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 commodity for that matter, are…
1. US Lifts Sanctions on Venezuela for Six Months- The US will temporarily lift
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, which now has said it…
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 would (and did)…
1. ExxonMobil-Pioneer Merger May Spark Further Giant Deals- The largest upstream deal since Shell’s 2015…
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 metrics. The market started the…
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 end of September beginning to…
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 in an untenable…
1. Q3 Earnings Calls to Focus on Capex Direction and Cost Management- The news of…