Today I'm sending you a piece on Ecuador's recent move to change the terms of its contracts
with oil investors to keep more of the returns in the state.
Not exact matches
With oil prices creeping back upward, brave
investors are re-examining energy stocks.
In its early days, when natural gas prices rose and fell in lockstep
with oil,
investors questioned its business plan.
The company said in February that it planned to buy back up to $ 5 billion of stock over 2018 - 2020 to share the benefits of higher
oil prices
with investors.
With oil prices rising again, it now has to prove to
investors and analysts that it took the right course.
Lance was not alone among the
oil CEOs looking to attract
investors back to the spurned sector,
with Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden saying Shell and the industry are working to achieve better shareholder returns through strong free cash flow and lower debt.
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.
NEW YORK, April 25 - After losing ground and underperforming the broad market in 2017, U.S. energy shares are climbing fast
with oil prices and gaining attention from
investors who think the trend may hold.
Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and
with help from an unnamed angel
investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid,
oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.
In recent years,
investors have had to cope
with plenty of uncertainty: three summers worth of the Greek default crises (2010, 2011, 2012); the US «fiscal cliff» in early 2013 and the government shutdown that October; the Ukraine - Russia conflicts; the collapse in
oil prices; China's slowdown and currency devaluation; and now, Brexit.
NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters)- After losing ground and underperforming the broad market in 2017, U.S. energy shares are climbing fast
with oil prices and gaining attention from
investors who think the trend may hold.
Preeya Malik is a licensed attorney, entrepreneur and expert on investment immigration,
with an interest in trade reform and the large fiscal surpluses in
oil - exporting economies, which has expanded the firm's reach to large portfolio of
investor contacts in the Middle East and India.
Page said that in addition to meeting
with members of Russia's presidential administration, he was also «in touch»
with Andrey Baranov, the head of
investor relations at the Russian state - owned
oil company Rosneft, before the trip.
Such optimism must somehow reconcile
with all the forces conspiring against Canadian
oil: the lack of pipeline infrastructure or «takeaway» capacity, the occasionally gaping price discount applied to Western Canada Select, the renaissance in
oil production unfolding in the U.S., rising Canadian production costs and the flight of
investor money out of commodities.
The rollercoaster ride in
oil prices over the past three years may be old hat to
investors familiar
with the commodity's historical sensitivity to macro events (see chart below), but
oil price volatility is by no means endemic and several factors are now lining up to suggest a calmer period for crude may lie ahead.
With the
oil and natural gas markets stabilized, at least for now,
investors should begin considering which companies could emerge from the rubble of the
oil price collapse to see their stock prices double or triple in the next few years.
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.
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.
Murphy and a number of other companies, including ConocoPhillips (COP.N) and Marathon
Oil Corp (MRO.N), have sold or split off their refining units
with the aim of allowing
investors to assess the value of the businesses on a standalone basis.
Matt received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
with an emphasis in Finance from the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona and was recently named to the
Oil and Gas
Investor's «Top 40 under 40 in the
Oil and Gas Industry» for 2017.
With the recent decline in
oil prices it has left Canada's economy slightly shaken leaving many
investors very anxious.
Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure
investors their business models are compatible
with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think
oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging
with oil companies on the issue.
Crude -
oil prices traded slightly lower early Thursday, in up - and - down trade,
with investors wrestling
with a rise in weekly rise in U.S. crude...
For all the excitement about the growth in Brazilian
oil,
investors haven't been all that pleased
with Petrobras lately.
According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a privately managed group, the
oil industry in Canada is the largest private - sector
investor,
with estimated investments of $ 44 billion in 2017.
Reuters News PE Hub — IPO (Canada) Higher
oil prices and a positive earnings outlook for energy companies are expected to fuel a rebound in North American
oil and gas initial public offerings in 2018,
with bankers betting
investors -LSB-...]
The impact of higher
oil prices on the country's current account deficit and inflation rate, the Indian banking system's struggles
with demonetization, scandals, bad loans and a government looking ahead to next year's general election have all taken a toll on
investor sentiment.
Shares of small independent
oil and gas producer SM Energy Company (NYSE: SM) are down 12.1 % at 12:45 p.m. EST on Thursday, following the release of the company's fourth - quarter results yesterday after market close, and conference call
with investors before market open today.
What: Just when
investors thought it was safe to go back into the waters of the
oil market, building inventories of refined product and crude sent
oil prices plunging today and taking exploration and production stocks
with them.
But
with oil prices stabilizing (currently at about $ 68 per barrel of West Texas intermediate crude) and overall population growth still booming, multifamily
investors are...
As managers, workers and
investors try to ascertain their future amid
oil price volatility, there are only two options; understand it or live
with it.
Investors started off 2015
with a slow global economy, low
oil prices, a strong Dollar, and a deflationary Europe
with great uncertainties on the progress of the US economy and the recent launch of Europe's quantitative easing.
HOUSTON — After several years of sluggish rent growth, heavy concessions and tepid absorption brought on by the
oil slump,
investors are returning to Houston's multifamily market
with quite a bang.
The
oil price decline, coupled
with Russia's conflict
with Ukraine which has led to Western sanctions on Russia, has hit the economy as well as
investor confidence in the country.
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Oil prices and the US Yields to dictate the pace this week While geopolitical tensions remain bubbling under the surface, rising
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oil prices and higher US yields suggest
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With concerns about a growth slowdown, a strong U.S. dollar, and the plunge in
oil prices continuing to linger, some
investors have remained cautious about allocating their exposure to emerging markets.
A regular foreign
investor might well want some sort of extra risk premium, as is often the case
with national
oil companies.
Oil prices and the US Yields to dictate the pace this week While geopolitical tensions remain bubbling under the surface, rising oil prices and higher US yields suggest investors are likely to deal with increased volatility as a broad range of political, economic and financial events unfolds US Core PCE, GDP price index, personal consumption data are
Oil prices and the US Yields to dictate the pace this week While geopolitical tensions remain bubbling under the surface, rising
oil prices and higher US yields suggest investors are likely to deal with increased volatility as a broad range of political, economic and financial events unfolds US Core PCE, GDP price index, personal consumption data are
oil prices and higher US yields suggest
investors are likely to deal
with increased volatility as a broad range of political, economic and financial events unfolds US Core PCE, GDP price index, personal consumption data are...
NEW YORK After losing ground and underperforming the broad market in 2017, U.S. energy shares are climbing fast
with oil prices and gaining attention from
investors who think the trend may hold.
But even
with the aid of high
oil prices, the supermajors haven't offered
investors any returns to write home about.
It marks the first time overseas
investors have been able to access a Chinese commodity market — an
oil futures contract — that can be settled, not only
with U.S. dollars, but also Chinese Yuan, eventually a basket of currencies... and gold.
Nasser offered few clues about how Aramco will attract
investors, only saying the company will be «competing»
with the best in Big
Oil.
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.
Oil consolidated near recent highs on Friday but in the absence of any significant pre-weekend profit taking it suggest concerns that the US will exit the Iranian nuclear deal as early as May 12 continues to resonate
with investors.
In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago
investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but
with the disruptive technology in shale
oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.
Investors who buy ETFs that use commodity futures contracts are sometimes surprised to see that the ETF does not move in lockstep
with the price of the commodity as seen in the news,
oil being a good example.
You need a little bit of brain to understand how incredible that is...
with the fact that we have had no angel (read «
oil»)
investor.
«When we are faced
with investors from Qatar, which generates huge revenues through gas and
oil production, we can't fight against that.
- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees,
with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional
investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the
Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;
In my opinion, an opportunity for substantive policy reforms may have been lost - we refused to deregulate the downstream
oil sector; we have not made new investments in our upstream more attractive to
investors; we have not made any privatisations since 2015; NNPC remains opaque and indeed is now worse
with evidently poor governance and low transparency!