Sentences with phrase «u.s. oil fund»

For example, the U.S. Oil Fund (NYSEArca: USO) is up some 8 percent so far, notes this Wall Street Journal story.

Not exact matches

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

Data from hedge fund analytical tool Kensho that examined patterns coinciding with U.S. military actions in the Middle East dating back to the 1990s show that in the day, week and month after a Mideast strike, oil has underperformed other assets, and the energy sector has been one of the worst in the S&P 500.

As crude prices began to plunge last year, many energy experts predicted a repeat of 1986 when U.S. oil companies lost their funding and the industry collapsed into a yearslong bust.

By April 24, funds held a record net long position in U.S. gasoline equivalent to 111 million barrels as well as a net position in heating oil equivalent to 69 million barrels (https://tmsnrt.rs/2JEyL9A).

That year hedge fund performance suffered as managers were surprised by events like a plunge in oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. election.

Oil finishes higher Thursday, as traders worried that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement and the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel...

Demand for the U.S. dollar has remained high despite this because of the world's reliance on it to fund crude oil purchases.

Others have made the same point, and suggest that President Barack Obama may have exceeded his authority when he struck a deal for BP to cancel its dividends and set up a $ 20 - billion (U.S.) oil spill fund.

Oil prices finish higher as IMF move threatens Venezuelan output Traders also weigh jump in U.S. crude supplies, risks to Iran dealAfter trading on a mixed note for much of Wednesday's session, oil prices settled decidedly higher, as the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela reignited market concerns over the struggling nation's crude productiOil prices finish higher as IMF move threatens Venezuelan output Traders also weigh jump in U.S. crude supplies, risks to Iran dealAfter trading on a mixed note for much of Wednesday's session, oil prices settled decidedly higher, as the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela reignited market concerns over the struggling nation's crude productioil prices settled decidedly higher, as the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela reignited market concerns over the struggling nation's crude production.

Oil up a second session as potential for U.S. withdrawal from Iran nuclear pact grows Natural - gas prices settle at a 2 - week lowOil finishes higher Thursday, as traders worried that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement and the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela from the international coalition of nations will lead to tighter global crude supplies.

They include as potential influencers three other precious metals futures, crude oil spot and futures, two commodity indexes, U.S. and world stock indexes, currency exchange rates, 10 - year U.S. Treasury note (T - note) yield, U.S. Federal Funds Rate (FFR), a volatility index (VIX) and U.S. and world consumer price indexes.

The Fund's top contributor for the quarter was a U.S. technology company, while the largest detractor was a U.S. - based oil and gas exploration and production company.

The Fund's top contributor for the quarter was a Swiss luxury goods company, while the largest detractor was a U.S. - based global oil and gas exploration company.

Notably, in In re BP PLC Securities Litigation, Pomerantz currently represents nearly three dozen institutional plaintiffs, including U.S. public and private pension funds, U.S. limited partnerships and ERISA trusts, and pension funds from Canada, the U.K., France, the Netherlands, and Australia for claims arising from the disastrous April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Elected officials like former Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet ministers were essentially publicly - funded lobbyists as they travelled to the U.S. dozens of times to advocate for Keystone XL and other oil industry projects.

Oil finished higher Thursday for a second day, as traders worried that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela, will lead to tighter global crude supplies.

Instead, the money comes from dedicated sources approved by Congress — for example, the 21st Century Cures Act, a House bill to speed the development of new medicines, would give NIH $ 8.75 billion in new funding over 5 years by selling oil from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

February 24, 2016 • U.S. consumers are enjoying extremely low gasoline prices, but the big drop in oil prices is causing hardship in nations that depend on oil production to fund their governments and social programs.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that 46 innovative transit projects chosen for their capacity to help cut the nation's dependence on oil and create a marketplace for 21st century «green» jobs will share $ 112 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that 46 innovative transit projects chosen for their capacity to help cut the nation's dependence on oil and create a marketplace for 21st century «green» jobs will share $ 112 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.

For example, you might choose to hedge gas prices by buying more oil stocks through a fund like the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Energy Sector (IYE), which holds several different oil companies.

(ETF Trends: Nov 16, 2015) Tom Lydon of ETF Trends says that with low oil prices weighing on the energy sector, «investors may turn to a relatively new ex-sector exchange traded fund to track U.S. equities while excluding exposure to weaker energy companies.»

At $ 1 trillion U.S. in assets, Norway's sovereign wealth fund made headlines in November 2017 with the news it would consider selling its oil and gas stocks over time.

There is not a single similar institution in the U.S. — oh, you might point to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, managed jointly by Bechtel and Battelle (oil pipelines and «clean coal» - FutureGen projects), but they get their funding slashed every year, more or less — and they cancelled their most promising biofuel program, algal biofuel, back in 1997 — good luck with that.

Eliminating tax incentives for the cheap and dirty energy of the past is not about taking a stick to U.S. oil and coal production, it's about having the means to create incentives to help fund a clean, renewable energy future.

The Russian government has been funding radical environmental groups to «suppress the U.S. domestic oil & gas industry,» according to leading Congressional House members.

Exxon said it cut off funding for some groups opposed to climate change in 2005, but the oil giant continued to support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- groups that have lobbied against climate - related government policies.

In an ironic twist, Think Progress has just reported that a bizarre technicality in U.S. law allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleaning up oil spills like the one in Mayflower.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which promises to deliver 700,000 barrels of Canadian crude to U.S. markets a day, isn't based in Saskatchewan (though economic spin - offs from the oil sands bring jobs and help fund social services across the entire country).

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

The 15 U.S. - based organizations – 350.org, Climate Hawks Vote, CREDO, Earth Guardians, Friends of the Earth, Green America, Honor the Earth, Institute for Policy Studies, League of Conservation Voters, The Hip Hop Caucus, Oil Change International, Potlach Fund, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN)-- represent more than 13 million combined supporters.

of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.

ICF International, Economic Analysis of Methane Emission Reduction Opportunities in the U.S. Onshore Oil and Natural Gas Industries, prepared for Environmental Defense Fund (2014).

According to a recent report by Friends of the Earth U.S. and Oil Change International, ECAs fund almost $ 40 billion worth of fossil fuel projects each year.

Another progressive approach is to rebate the carbon tax revenues equally to all U.S. residents — a national version of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which for decades has annually sent identical checks to all state residents from earnings on investments made with the state's North Slope oil royalties.

I stated that the Fraser Institute had received significant funding from Canadian oil and gas companies (ExxonMobil is U.S. based of course).

California's two biggest pension funds lost more than $ 5 billion (U.S.) since June 2014 because of the declining value of their fossil fuel holdings, while Norway's massive sovereign fund, which has already divested many of its fossil fuel assets, still lost $ 40 billion between July and August, partly because of falling oil prices.

And the International Monetary Fund has documented that since their peak in July 2008, oil prices declined by 69 % as of December 2008, and global food prices declined by 33 % during the same period, while U.S. corn production has remained at 12 billion bushels a month, one - third of which is still used for ethanol production.

Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.

Suggestions of conspiracy is also occasionally found among IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists, as in the following e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab: «Ironically, the people who are conducting these attacks and accuse the scientific community of belonging to some sort of «global conspiracy» are themselves part of a conspiracy, funded by the oil and coal industry, to discredit any scientist or piece of evidence that supports the hypothesis that humans are causing a detectable change to global climate.»

(Reuters)- Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $ 1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace.

In addition to his studies, Ishan has policy experience as an intern at the White House, U.S. Treasury, and The Carter Center, and as a consultant for the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Environmental Defense Fund.

NEW YORK - Oil major Exxon Mobil Corp. is engaging in industry talks on possible U.S. greenhouse gas emissions regulations and has stopped funding groups skeptical of global warming claims moves that some say could indicate a change in stance from the long - time foe of limits on heat - trapping gases.

And for a growing number of U.S. oil companies, many based in Houston, the infusion of Chinese cash in Canadian projects is welcome funding for some capital - intensive oil sands projects.

As the Center for Media and Democracy has documented on our SourceWatch site, CEI has been well - funded by Exxon and other oil companies, and is one of the main U.S. corporate front groups fighting efforts to address global warming and regulate the industry that feeds it funding.

But, if the goal is generating revenue for government to fund worthy projects, rather than a series of one - time sales, why not lift the ban on U.S. crude oil exports and create an annual revenue stream?