With oil prices climbing and demand high, drivers are paying more to fill their gas tanks than they have in three years.
With oil prices low and the government's cash dwindling, price controls have become a huge problem.
However,
with oil prices now at six year lows investor fears and uncertainty have sent share prices crashing by as much as 64 % in the last six months.
With oil prices near $ 70, and expected by many analysts to stay over $ 50 through the end of 2006, governments believe alternative energy will help keep their economies growing.
Experts warn that the Canadian dollar will remain weak over the coming months,
with oil prices going down and revenues falling.
With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.
How To Buy Stocks In
Oil With oil prices being so volatile lately, it's not surprising that there are many good opportunities to buy oil stocks.
Those of you who can recall our
experience with the oil price shock of the 1970s will remember the subsequent effort required to bring inflation under control.
Fast forward 6 months and the global energy market is in a state of
flux with oil prices having declined approximately 50 % due to robust and unexpected supply growth.
With oil prices trending near their long - term lows, you can profit from a rebound by buying oil stocks and energy - related stocks.
With oil prices so low it shouldn't come as a surprise that oil companies are looking to cut wherever they can to reduce costs and maintain profitability.
Not to mention that other familiar problem — far too much correlation with the stock market, and far too
little with the oil price!
But
with oil prices rising, and consumers moving to a wood stove in every house next to the two cars in the garage, concerns about personal heat source choices are heating up.
I could not have predicted this, but
with oil prices going through the roof, my post that was neutral on the price action was hot for the market as a whole.
With oil prices hovering around historic lows, and showing little prospect of improvement, the industry is already in a process of contraction.
With oil prices soaring, biofuels from corn, palm oil, sugar cane and other agricultural products are increasingly seen as a cheap and cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports: «Many oil producers believe drilling in some U.S. regions can be profitable even
with oil prices in their current range of $ 40 to $ 50 a barrel.»
«The Vice President also made the point that in 2014
with oil prices as high as 120 dollars per barrel, the total capital released for Power, Works, Housing, Defence, Transport, Agriculture and Defence were just N152Billion for the whole year.
The Bank even included a grimmer «what - if» scenario with oil flat - lining at $ 50 — this figure shows how bad that might be for Canada compared
with no oil price drop.
With oil prices stabilizing in double - digits, Saudi Arabia is looking ahead to what could be a significant move on the global stage — the massive and strategically important Saudi Aramco IPO, which is being watched by investors around the world.
That fall,
with oil prices continuing to fall, Wael Sawan, who grew up in Dubai, graduated from Harvard Business School, and did a stint as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, was named Shell's executive vice president for deepwater.
Even
with oil prices still down by half from the peak, improvements in well development productivity have enabled US producers to make money at much lower oil prices.
Harry Campbell, managing partner of Calgary - based Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP, says
with oil prices reaching $ 100 a barrel it's hard to complain but that, «Alberta's basically a natural gas jurisdiction, and the natural gas prices aren't as high as oil prices right now, so the drilling is down.
«If oil prices go to $ 110 a barrel (bl) or $ 115 / bl, gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Russia might be even stronger next year, at over 2 percent [but] we estimate growth is likely to remain positive
only with oil prices above $ 92 - 93 / bl.
Chris Weafer, a senior partner at economic and political consultancy Macro Advisory, said he still saw Russia's economy growing by 1.8 percent this year,
with oil prices above $ 60 a barrel.
A study issued by CIBC World Markets in March suggested that a system of carbon tariffs, combined
with oil prices more than $ 100 a barrel, «could reverse the migration of certain manufacturing industries that have left North America for much cheaper labour markets in China.»
In fact,
with oil prices increasing only with inflation from $ 18 / bbl in 2000, the NEB expected total oilsands production to reach 1.6 million barrels per day by 2015.
Unfortunately, Alberta can't be counted on to lead the economy,
not with oil prices around $ 50 a barrel.
«I could not stand in front of an executive
committee with oil prices where they were» and ask Shell's leaders to invest in Vito as it was, says Sawan, considered a rising star at Shell.
That could increase the likelihood of Saudi stocks moving in
tandem with oil prices — despite the kingdom's long - term goal to try to diversify its economy away from oil.
Royal Dutch / Shell and BP on Tuesday joined peers in reporting higher than expected earnings by making further deep cuts in spending to
cope with an oil price downturn now in its third year.
As jet fuel costs rise in
accordance with oil prices — and already fuel has overtaken labour as airlines» biggest expense — air travel could risk becoming unaffordable for the average person.
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Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.
With oil prices renewing a leg lower, Saudi Arabia is reading for an $ 87 billion deficit, reports CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis.
But Delta — like its rivals, such as American and United, which report later this month — faced higher fuel costs last year and is now
grappling with oil prices at multiyear highs.