As
oil markets continue their downwards spiral this week, tell us how bearish you are on U.S. crude prices.
Exxon's profits have improved over the last year as
the oil market continues to recover from a prolonged price slump.
Not exact matches
As the North American
oil transportation system
continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for
oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American
oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.
European
markets continued lower on Monday afternoon as investors focused on fresh data from the euro zone and volatility in
oil markets.
The International Energy Agency said Friday the
oil market is re-balancing as demand
continues to grow but more time is needed before these shifting fundamentals are felt by
markets.
Wall Street stock futures are opening lower with
continued jitters in media and energy stocks after dispiriting news from earnings season and from the crude
oil market this week.
«There is no doubt that the financial
markets are
continuing to have an impact on
oil, particularly on physical
oil,» he said.
«The bottom line is they're committed to holding back supply from the
market, which combined with the
continued decline of PDVSA in Venezuela is going to make for higher
oil prices,» said Kilduff.
«
Oil supplies (from the United States) are
continuing to grow and there are no signs of a reversal,» said Fawad Razaqzada,
market analyst at futures brokerage Forex.com.
The United States will overtake Russia as the world's biggest
oil producer by 2019 at the latest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, as the country's shale
oil boom
continues to upend global
markets.
«We are seeing United States production rising very, very dramatically before our very eyes and that's likely to
continue in 2018,» Neil Atkinson, head of the
oil industry and
markets division at the IEA, told CNBC Tuesday.
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports the latest on the
oil markets as volatility is expected to
continue.
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.
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on the
oil market as U.S. and OPEC production
continues to rise.
A prolonged downturn in
oil and natural gas
markets continued to ripple through New Mexico's economy over the summer and into the fall, undermining state tax revenues.
The
oil market is re-balancing as demand
continues to grow but more time is needed before these shifting fundamentals are felt by
markets, the latest report from the International Energy Agency said Friday.
O'Loughlin said that relatively high
oil prices, supported by healthy demand and production cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to tighten
markets, «are encouraging U.S. shale producers to
continue ramping up production.»
«We
continue to review our capital program in the context of the current
market and are evaluating reducing our heavy
oil drilling program for the second half of 2018 and substituting a light
oil program instead, if it makes sense,» said president Tim McKay on a call with analysts.
Outlook cloudy:
oil companies are making rafts of job cuts as uncertainty
continues to roil the energy
market.
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But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a
continued hedge against the differential in world
oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude -
oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude
oil, and
marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.
However this plays out, we'll certainly
continue to monitor it, as well as the
oil market.
Because I don't see the capital
markets continuing to fund non-conventional
oil drilling when the ever present risk of prolonged low prices, or worse another step down I therefore see the balancing of the
market occurring sooner then you suggest.
All
markets will
continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond
markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings,
oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's FOMC Meeting Statement followed by reports tomorrow on UK PMI, Eurozone PPI, CPI, US Challenger Job Cuts, Productivity, Unit Labor Costs, Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, Markit Services PMI, ISM Services, Durable Goods and Factory Orders for near term direction.
While the near - zero balance of opinion suggests that labour
market slack remains, the indicator has
continued to improve gradually since the
oil price shock, as conditions in affected regions have bottomed out.
All
markets will
continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond
markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings,
oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japanese PMI, UK PMI, US Vehicle Sales, Markit Manufacturing PMI, Construction Spending and ISM Manufacturing for near term guidance.
All
markets will
continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond
markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings,
oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japan's Leading Index and Machine Tool Orders, German IFO, US Case - Shiller Home Price Index, New Home Sales, Richmond Fed and Consumer Confidence for near term guidance.
July 2016
Oil and Gas Prices Global crude
markets showed resilience in June when both Brent and WTI rallied to a 2016 high above $ 51 / bbl, due to
continuing outages in Nigeria and Canada, as well as a 1.7 % decline in U.S. production.
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.
While the re-balancing of global
oil markets is progressing, record - high crude and gasoline inventories
continue to put downward pressure on prices.
Despite the collapse of talks,
oil market watchers said the lack of a «Doha deal» would be better in the long term and would mean that a rebalancing process of supply and demand can
continue to its natural conclusion.
Despite a saturated world
market, North American production, whether it's bitumen from Alberta's
oil sands or light
oil from North Dakota or Texas,
continues to increase.
As more pipelines are built to take
oil to a coast, North American prices will
continue to merge with global
oil markets.
As Tropical Storm Harvey
continues to cause severe flooding in the Houston area, how might this impact the
oil market?
Despite the moderate global growth levels, OPEC remained confident on
oil demand growth and stuck to its prediction that
oil markets are
continuing to rebalance.
Oil futures edged lower for a second straight session on Monday in thin trade as European
markets observed the Easter holiday and as hedge funds and other big speculators were
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Given this dynamic, we'd
continue to focus on more cyclical, less rate - sensitive segments of the U.S. equity
market: technology, financials and integrated
oil companies.
The
oil market is having a stellar month,
continuing a rally fueled by stronger demand and expectations of bigger output cuts.
There is a roughly six - month lag time between the decision to begin drilling and
oil showing up in the
market, so the rush of new drilling that began in the first half of 2017 will ensure that production likely
continues on its upward trajectory for the rest of the year.
The 104 - page OPEC report finds that there will be greater demand for the group's
oil in 2016, with customers consuming an average of 31.65 million barrels a day throughout the year because the
market will be «supply - driven» as competitors, beset by low prices,
continue to cut back severely on capital expenditures ranging from exploration to new drilling.
While most industry pundits
continue to believe that the OPEC cuts / shale growth tug - of - war will
continue to cap
oil prices, the current mood in the
market is a bit merrier than it was two years ago, one year ago, or even one month ago.
While the
continuing Russia - OPEC discussions are dominating headlines, with a focus on a possible extension of the
oil production cut agreement into 2019, the
market is far from stable.
David Dudley, International Director and Head of Abu Dhabi Office at JLL MENA, says, «Ongoing cost cutting and downsizing in the
oil and government sectors have
continued to reduce demand across all sectors of Abu Dhabi's real estate
market.
Although the
oil market has been improving, OPEC still has work to do to bring global
oil inventories back to their five - year average — the metric that OPEC has vowed to achieve
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TORONTO — The plunge in global stock
markets over the past week has dragged down the Canadian dollar and
oil prices, but some
market observers see signs the loonie's fortunes will change this year even as the Canadian dollar
continued its slide Monday.
Weak demand across residential, office and retail sectors has been evident since the decline of
oil prices at the end of 2014 and
continues to impact government spending and general sentiment, says the Abu Dhabi Real Estate
Market Overview Q3, 2016.
The rally in
oil prices over the past year likely had more to do with higher demand rather than merely the supply taken off of the
market by the OPEC / non-OPEC
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Crude
oil, on the other hand, has fallen back into a bear
market, setting new lows dating back to last August as oversupply concerns
continue to weigh on the
market.
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China's currency has stabilized, the U.S. labor
market continues to expand, and the
oil supply appears to be moderating.