With crude oil down a mere $ 30 from its recent peak, many economists and financial analysts are proclaiming the end of the oil bull market.
Not exact matches
But when
oil companies cut
down production in response to depressed prices, the money stops flowing along
with the
crude.
People are conditioned to expect some price increases, just like we're conditioned to expect gas prices to go up or
down with the price of
crude oil.
The U.S. is exporting
crude oil at a record pace
with no signs of slowing
down.
Oil prices dropped more than 3 % but later recovered somewhat,
with Brent
crude futures 0.6 % lower at $ 125.2 while US
crude was
down 0.4 % at $ 113.46 a barrel.
Commodities started the week without a clear direction, as industrials are
down together
with stocks,
crude oil is also a bit lower after the late - day rally on Friday, while gold is edging higher following a negative Asian session, being back to unchanged thanks to the dip in the Dollar and stocks.
With crude oil prices
down sharply from last year and the
oil glut at risk of increasing, private security consultant Charles Clifton's phone has been ringing.
Despite the disruptions,
crude oil is
down,
with Brent trading at US$ 51.85 a barrel at 10:00 CST,
down 1.07 percent, and WTI at US$ 46.72,
down 2.4 percent.
With oil prices already
down on the day, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a large build of 3.427 million barrels of United States
crude oil inventories for the week Continue Reading
Backwardation, contango's opposite, was one of OPEC's key goals
with the output cuts — discouraging the storage of
crude oil and driving oversupply
down.
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Crude -
oil prices traded slightly lower early Thursday, in up - and -
down trade,
with investors wrestling
with a rise in weekly rise in U.S.
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Overall,
crude ended the week
down about 4 %,
with the U.S.
oil benchmark price WTI settling just above $ 45 per barrel on renewed supply worries due to surging U.S. production.
The near $ 5.00 sell - off in WTI
crude oil has absolutely crushed the energy ETF complex,
with the broad - based Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLE)
down 6.2 percent as of 3:29 p.m. EDT.
On Wednesday, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al - Falih said — after meeting
with his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak — that OPEC and non-OPEC producers are committed to do «whatever it takes» to draw the global
crude oil inventories
down to their five - year average.
Furthermore,
with Iran's
oil also up in the market and expected to be ramped up systematically, compounded by the melt
down in demand being fueled by the crisis in China,
crude prices are facing more pressures.
We still don't know enough about tar sand
oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break
down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of
oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how
crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged
with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.
Oil prices were also hammered,
with West Texas Intermediate
crude down six per cent to US$ 47.15 a barrel.
The week played out
with Gold drifting lower while
Crude Oil turned
down and dropped all week.
The week played out
with Gold gapping lower and end
down while
Crude Oil pulled back as well before rebounding.
Losers in stocks included Vanguard Utilities (VPU)
down 3.24 % and Vanguard Telecom Services ETF (VOX)
down 1.38 %
with a big 15.70 % loss in PowerShares DB
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oil reversed course in September).
U.S.
crude oil production rebounds from recent lows, driven by continued development of tight
oil resources,
with consumption flat to
down compared to recent history.
In 2015 the
oil industry was hit
with an extended period of fluctuation in which
crude oil Brent gapped steadily
down to below $ 30 a barrel by the end of the year.
But, it looks like bitcoiners are starting to grow up and settle
down, he says, drawing a parallel
with another market, the decidedly analogue trade in
crude oil.
In 2014, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began flooding the global marketplace
with oil, driving the price of a barrel of
crude oil from $ 107.5 in June 2014
down to $ 45 in January 2015.