Not exact matches
Because energy producers cut back on drilling and production when
oil is cheap (and less profitable for them),
investors were concerned that they would also stop ordering as many of MRC's pipes, which are
used to pump and transport crude.
Investors use many of other metrics — financial ones — to measure an
oil company's worth, and Aramco's finances will not be known until next year, ahead of the planned IPO.
If we look back at the dip in
oil prices in the fourth quarter of last year, general sentiment among
investors was that consumers would
use their savings at the pump to spend more at the store.
Investors who buy ETFs that
use commodity futures contracts are sometimes surprised to see that the ETF does not move in lockstep with the price of the commodity as seen in the news,
oil being a good example.
Transforming
oil use In 2012, the government planted the seeds of market liberalization, amending the constitution so that private and foreign
investors could buy into Mexico's energy systems and wean the government off
oil taxes.
In the past few years,
investors have
used commodities, especially
oil, as a hedge against dollar depreciation and inflation.
Due to the
use of futures contracts, many
oil ETPs make for poor long - term investments because they can expose
investors to contango by
using front - month futures.
The scenario which Exxon
uses is more generous in terms of future
oil and gas demand than some other scenarios, so
investors will want to satisfy themselves it is a genuine stress test of the company's business.»
«Additional analysis is required to look beyond industrial
oil palm plantations and capture the dynamics of
oil palm expansion in smallholder lands, and how other actors, including local
investors, are shaping land
use dynamics linked to
oil palm expansion».
However, given that Exxon's Outlook assumes
oil and gas
use will continue to grow through to 2040 (and that the world will miss it's climate commitments by some margin), we would argue that the question
investors are more interested in is «if the company makes investments in projects based on assumptions that subsequently turn out to be over-optimistic, what is the financial risk?»
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