Not exact matches
«If Trump abandons the deal, he risks a spike in
global oil prices,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, adding that re-introducing U.S. sanctions could remove 300,000 - 500,000 bpd of Iranian
oil from global supplies.
Unlike
oil, gold and copper, for which
prices are set in London and New York, iron ore is one of the few commodities whose
global pricing takes its cue
from China.
A report
from CIBC World Markets recently predicted the stock market might fall 10 % — 15 % this summer due to a confluence of factors, including a weak U.S. housing market, increasing fiscal strain, expensive
oil prices, sluggish corporate earnings growth and disruptions in
global supply chains stemming
from the Japanese crisis.
Oil prices slipped away
from 2018 highs on Thursday, with
global benchmark Brent trading at $ 71.15 in early afternoon deals, down 0.8 percent, and WTI trading at $ 66.38, around 0.6 percent lower.
The
global drop in
oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a decrease in gasoline
prices that may act as a massive tax cut for those who have reaped very few benefits
from the economic recovery.
The
global drop in
oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a commensurate decrease in gasoline
prices that may act as a massive tax cut for the very people who have, so far, reaped very few benefits
from the economic recovery.
He is a Fellow at Columbia University's Center on
Global Energy Policy and the author of the forthcoming book «Missing OPEC: The History and Future of Boom - Bust
Oil Prices,»
from Columbia University Press, 2016.
Prices for crude
oil, the world economy's most essential commodity, will need until 2020 to recover
from the
price war unleashed last year by Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the
global energy market.
The 2015 budget deficit had to be revised to 3.2 percent of GDP
from 3 percent after crude
oil prices plunged, but that's down
from a high of 6.7 percent in 2009 during the
Global Financial Crisis, Maybank noted.
«If Trump abandons the deal, he risks a spike in
global oil prices,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, noting that reintroducing U.S. sanctions could remove 300,000 - 500,000 bpd of Iranian
oil from global supplies.
Global oil prices, meanwhile, are quietly testing one - month highs ahead of next week's OPEC meeting in Vienna, where ministers
from the cartel's members are widely expected to extend and agreement on production cuts into the first quarter of 2018.
In a world of triple - digit
oil prices, the
global economy will be very different
from the one we've known.
From nickel to soybean
oil, plywood to sugar,
global commodity
prices have been on a steady decline as the world's economy has lost momentum.
However, this signaled to investors that rising supply
from the U.S. would continue to depress
global oil prices, and further drag energy shares down.
Oil prices have arisen
from the lows set in March, but a glut of inventory and few catalysts for dramatic jumps in
global energy demand suggest 2015 earnings will likely be less than half of last year's tally.
«
Oil prices have more than halved
from mid-2014 due to a
global supply glut.»
Signs of
global economic turmoil are being seen
from falling stock market and crude
oil prices to the weakest Canadian dollar since 2004.
Following a January rally, the
global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a
price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in
global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside
from robust gains for a host of agricultural products,
oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.
The US
oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI
prices began to recede
from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear
global oversupply.
The dollar's weakness, however, failed to help
global oil prices, which continued to fall in Monday trading following last Friday's data
from Baker Hughes (BHI) showed U.S.
oil and natural gas producers added 21 rigs over the past week,
The Canadian economy continues to work its way back
from the post-crisis
global recession and the associated collapse in our exports while, at the same time, is adjusting to lower
prices for
oil and other commodities as well as a much lower exchange rate.
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.
Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou
from JP Morgan says
global consumers enjoyed a US$ 1.8 trillion annual windfall — worth 2.2 per cent of
global GDP — when
oil prices crashed.
With
oil prices in recent months having fluctuated in a range somewhat below their October peak, risks to the
global economy
from that source appear to have lessened.
Now, investors are eyeing an OPEC meeting on November 27 to see whether the organization could even cut
prices further in an attempt to retain its
global market share, particularly in the face of competition
from the U.S. where
oil production has increased thanks to the shale gas industry.
Oil prices are poised to shoot through the top of recent ranges amid growing
global demand and that could boost U.S. crude by some 36 percent
from current levels, one analyst told CNBC.
And while there is pressure on
pricing in the industry,
global oil consumption has continued to grow and the
oil must move
from production to refining operations.
A surge in North American production made possible by technological revolutions contributed to a
global crude
oil glut that toppled
prices from more than $ 100 a barrel in 2014 to under $ 50 today.
It's a cute theory, but the real reason
global oil prices are falling doesn't have much to do with a bump in the amount of refined products that are being exported
from the U.S..
We also still favor assets levered to rising
oil prices — energy stocks and select master limited partnerships — and other commodities that should benefit
from accelerating
global growth.
Oil prices dipped, with West Texas Intermediate crude at $ 53.50 a barrel versus $ 54.10 last week and
global Brent falling to $ 55.60
from $ 57.10.
Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a
global recession, slowing economic growth
from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy
prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including
oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.
As you can see in the table above, which looks at the
price differential between the Brent
global benchmark
price and the West Texas Intermediate
price (the amount by which North American
oil prices differ
from average international
prices each year), the problem is that the
price differential between 2011 and 2013 was exceptional.
The government had between November 2014 and January 2016 raised excise duty on petrol by Rs 11.77 a litre and that on diesel by Rs 13.47 per litre to take away gains arising
from plummeting
global oil prices.
Increased demand
from consumers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, buoyed by strong
oil prices, coupled with exports to traditional trading partners such as Japan, is benefiting the Australian dairy sector, which has a 17 per cent share of
global cheese exports.
However, Bord Bia said prospects for Irish dairy exports in 2017 look positive: Recovering
global dairy
prices and increased demand
from key
global dairy importers and anticipated stronger
oil prices should help exports.
In the light of the crash in
global crude
oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on
oil and gas infrastructure in the
oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude
oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics
from sole reliance on
oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.
The Federal Government has warned that Nigeria will begin feeling the impact of the declining
price of crude
oil in the
global market
from this November...
For every barrel of extra
oil obtained
from tar sands as a result of the pipeline,
global oil consumption would increase by 0.6 barrels, because the extra
oil would lower
oil prices and encourage people to use more.
Alaska relies on revenue
from oil production to fund schools, and the
global drop in
oil prices has led to a school - funding crisis.
The MSCI World Index is up 14 percent
from its mid-February lows, as stocks have shaken off fears of a
global recession, an
oil -
price collapse and a Chinese currency devaluation.
As shown in the chart on the left,
global GDP is estimated to increase
from.5 % to 1.4 %
from a drop of $ 25 in
oil prices.
Domestic
oil prices trading at a steep discount to
global benchmarks because of pipeline limitations, and the uncertainty overhang
from NAFTA negotiations alongside the risk of steel and aluminum tariffs (Canada is the world's largest supplier of both metals to the U.S.) has restrained investment activity.
Postscripts: Of course, this thought experiment suffers
from the reality that crude
oil prices, in a
global market, don't jump based on a single region's troubles.
The recent energy
price shocks
from Hurricane Katrina remind us of the need to conserve to help the victims, and reduce our dependency on
oil,» explained
Global Green President Matt Petersen.
And the
oil that could be produced
from offshore areas would have an effect, but it would be a small increment to the
global market, and thus its
price impact would be small.
The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about
global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates
from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the
price of
oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol
from corn.
«Critically, the greatest impact will — initially — not be directly
from reduced demand, but
from the consequent pressure on commodity
prices,» said Spedding who was previously
global co-head of
oil and gas research at HSBC.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has struck a deal to buy back
oil rights
from a secretive offshore company for a sum likely to be hundreds of times the
price the company paid several years earlier,
Global Witness says in a report published today.
(15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy
from high and volatile
oil prices and
from the threats caused by
global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.