CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis
reports oil prices dropping on Iran planning to increase output to pre-sanction levels and the Saudis saying they won't freeze unless Iran does.
Not exact matches
The world's top
oil and gas companies, including Exxon and Chevron,
reported sharp
drops in quarterly results last week due to lower
oil prices and weaker refining margins.
Demand for
oil is expected to
drop in 2017, the International Energy Agency said in a
report on Wednesday, raising further problems for producers as they try to ramp up
prices.
With the collapse of global
oil prices, the largest recyclers like Waste Management have
reported sharp
drops in recycling revenue and stagnated recycling rates across the country.
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis
reports oil prices threatened to
drop below the $ 50 level as U.S. production nears record levels.
Bakersfield relies heavily on the
oil industry, which has been hit by the
drop in
oil prices,
reported the Los Angeles Times in early 2016.
The Houston Chronicle's Collin Eaton,
reporting from the energy hub of the world, found that
oil companies and equipment supplies cut an estimated 440,000 jobs worldwide over the last three years as crude
oil prices dropped.
Many indie gas stations buy gas from name - brand
oil companies, and they're often the first to slash
prices when crude
oil rates
drop, NPR
reported.
The lower - for - longer outlook for
oil prices took its heaviest toll yet in the third quarter as
oil companies again
reported a dramatic
drop in income.
Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to
drop in the
price of
oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on
oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation
report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 %
drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.
GHANA is set to lose a whopping $ 13billion in
oil revenues if the
price of the commodity
drops and remains below $ 50 for the next two decades, a
report by the World Bank Group has revealed.
Retail gasoline
prices fell after crude
oil prices dropped for the fourth straight week — a product of weaker - than - expected global demand and increasing production, which EIA says will save American households $ 550 next year, Bloomberg News
reports.
A recent
report from real estate services firm CBRE on investment flows from the region noted an overall
drop in spending on global real estate in 2016 and 2017, largely due to the
price of
oil remaining near $ 50 a barrel on average.