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Last month the company said it plans to invest nearly 70 percent of this budget to boost production in Permian and Montney, as oil investors pressure producers to improve production without significantly increasing capital budgets.

Not exact matches

Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016 about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.

Although the oil price and the dollar have moved in tandem for the last few weeks, the two generally tend to trade in the opposite direction, as a stronger dollar encourages non-U.S. investors to sell oil and crude - importing countries to curtail their purchases.

Crude oil has helped the Saudi stock market race ahead of the rest of the world this year, but the rally is about more than energy, as reforms from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receive investors» endorsement.»

Wall Street has fallen as healthcare stocks slid and investors worried about rising costs for companies as oil prices rose, although the major indexes eked out a gain in April to snap a two - month losing streak.

The region in recent years has seen investor sentiment rattled by developments such as the drop in oil prices, the war in Syria and a sudden corruption purge from Riyadh.

Analysts and investors generally praised the deal as data analytics and other high - technology operations grow in demand among oil producers.

European markets continued lower on Monday afternoon as investors focused on fresh data from the euro zone and volatility in oil markets.

European markets closed lower on Monday as the euro hit a two - and - a-half year high and investors kept a close eye on the moves in oil.

The next few weeks will be crucial for oil prices as investors see how the OPEC deal will be implemented, according to a new report by the IEA.

Basic resources jumped 1.22 percent as a sector, supported by an uptick in metal prices, while oil stocks fell as investors doubt that the recent rally in prices will last.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

European markets hovered around the flatline as investors geared up for the latest in corporate earnings while keeping an eye on geopolitics and oil.

NEW YORK, April 13 - Oil prices extended recent gains and a gauge of global stocks eased on Friday as concern over a broader conflict in Syria left investors nervous, while U.S. bank shares led Wall Street lower.

Oil fell Tuesday as a stronger dollar prompted investors to take profits from a two - week rally ahead of weekly data that analysts have forecast will indicate an uptick crude inventories.

The company, which had made its name providing investors with a steady income from its oil and gas wells, cut its dividend in half as capital spending rose and energy prices fell.

But as oil prices firm up around the US$ 50 mark, investor anxiety is abating.

Those closures, affecting a major U.S. oil refining hotspot, are pushing up the prices of energy products like gasoline and heating oil as investors anticipate a drop in supply.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

Oil prices jumped Tuesday as investors grew more confident that a trade dispute between the United States and China could be resolved.

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 also kept to the sidelines on an uncertain political outlook in the world's two largest oil consumers thi s month as Americans head to the polls for the presidential elections next week and China's leaders meet to fill top posts.

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters)- European oil futures fell on Thursday as investors continued to analyse the aftermath of super storm Sandy, while U.S. futures gained as U.S. markets geared back up after the severe battering to the east coast delivered by Sandy.

In the last couple of months, oil has tended to move inversely to the dollar, as weakness in the currency makes it cheaper for non-U.S. investors in crude to buy and vice versa.

Inventory builds a concern for the oil market as energy investors turn their focus to the Fed.

LONDON, Nov 1 - Brent crude oil futures fell to $ 108 a barrel on Thursday as investors continued to analyse the aftermath of super storm Sandy.

& # 9660 Enbridge Canada's largest oil pipeline company sailed through the recession like a lifeboat for scared investors as it kept hiking its profits and dividends.

Before branching out on his own, he was one of legendary investor Julian Robertson's first so - called tiger cubs, responsible for some big market calls during the 1990s such as the collapse of oil prices after start of the Persian Gulf War and the plunge in the British pound.

Saudi Aramco international IPO delay makes sense as the oil rally looks set to continue, investor says

Investment in Canada's oil and gas industry is expected to fall again this year as higher taxes and regulatory uncertainty persuade investors to spend elsewhere, says the head of a group that represents Canada's oil and gas industry.

Still, German analyst and investor sentiment rose sharply in December for a second month running, as a decline in the euro and oil prices boosted hopes for a pickup although a composite PMI covering Europe's largest economy showed weaker growth.

Oil prices collapsed on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of crude erased most of the gains that followed last year's OPEC's output cut.

«If the geopolitical tension subsides or results in a smaller supply disruption than currently priced in, we are likely to see a sharp pull - back in investor positioning and an even sharper correction in oil prices than the $ 5 or so that might be warranted even as macro uncertainties persist,» U.S. bank Citi said in a note to investors.

The outcome of any conflict in the Middle East seems to have standard market reverberations; the price of oil rises, investors flock to safe havens such as gold and the American dollar.

Investors hoping to invest in what could develop as a major gas and oil field in the Philippines have been stymied by Australian Stock Exchange bureaucracy.

Veteran U.S. investor Jim Rogers is looking at possible investments into Russian oil firm Bashneft and diamond miner Alrosa as he aims to add more Russian assets to his portfolio, he told Reuters.

Plunging oil prices and China's market meltdown have been cited as two big culprits behind market volatility this summer, but history shows less correlation between these markets and U.S. stocks than many investors might expect.

Armed with such results, Shell and Total are in payback mood to investors, buying back shares after diluting stakes with scrip dividends - consisting of shares rather than cash - introduced after the price crash which sent oil prices as low as $ 28 a barrel.

Some companies trimmed capital budget plans as an answer to the persistently low oil prices and as reassurance to investors that they would embrace financial discipline.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wall Street fell on Monday as healthcare stocks slid and investors worried about rising costs for companies as oil prices rose, although the major indexes eked out a gain in April to snap a two - month losing streak.

Loeb recently told Third Point fund investors that shares of the oil and gas company could be 60 percent higher, and he outlined changes it could make to add value, such as spinning off its retail business or selling its Canadian natural gas assets.

Early into this year, analysts and investors were way more optimistic about the oil price recovery, but as global inventories continued to stay high and OPEC lost its market charm with the cuts and compliance, prices started dropping again, and WTI has traded mostly below US$ 50 — and frequently below US$ 45 — since early March.

Last fall, Goldman Sachs played the first harbinger of gloomy times to come, alerting investors that oil prices could fall as low as $ 20 a barrel.

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B.C.'s oil - safety proposal may have given another category of investors cause to gulp as well.

A recent assessment by Citi oil analysts warned investors that Alberta syncrude»... is not a fuel source that sits naturally within a low carbon economy and is unlikely to be a strategic winner as climate regulation tightens, albeit gradually, in North America.»

The shine has come off the oil sands, as more investors have started to question whether oil sands development is really a sure thing, particularly at the speed projected by bullish petro - boosters.

U.S. drillers expect to continue raising production this year, but some are adjusting spending to the expected cash flows in the current oil price environment, after prices failed to rise as much as analysts and investors had expected a few months ago.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

We discuss the themes of the earnings season and the shareholder returns fever that has gripped the industry as big oil competes for investors dollars.