oil prices

Traders and investors returned to the U.S. equities market after a three-day holiday weekend in a cautious mood ahead of another round of trade talks between the world’s two largest economies. This set of negotiations, in Washington this week, comes after a round of talks last week in Beijing...

February could bring a heaping plate of geopolitical drama to markets around the world, potentially helping to end a brief calm that settled over January. As the month starts, markets were basking in the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates steady, along with better than expected...

Each month, there are three agencies that release their views on supply and demand: the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy, in its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO); the International Energy Agency (IEA), which is a 40+ year group founded by large oil consuming...

U.S. market participants awoke to a trio of positive news tidbits touching on the partial government shutdown, trade war, and Fed policy even as sentiment from a largely positive earnings season continued to provide momentum. On the political front, senators from both sides of the aisle said they...

IMO2020 will be the law of the land – or should we say, law of the seas – in a year. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is requiring that ships burn fuel with a sulfur content no greater than 0.5 percent beginning on January 1, 2020. At present, there are areas of major...

With oil markets whipping up and down—down from early October to right around Christmas, and then shooting back up since then into the first days of the new year—it begs the question: who is making money on these moves? There are really only two parts of the petroleum sector where...

The first week of 2019 saw three of America's largest companies announce revenue expectation reductions, signaling a potential cooling of the U.S. shipping market. Leading the corporations is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which announced its revenue for the end of 2018 would be lower than expected...

WTI crude oil has lost 40 percent since early October, and experts are conflicted on whether the worst is yet to come for the global commodity. Considering Big Dividend Payers One of the biggest contributors to the large decline in oil prices in recent months is an increase in...

Market volatility doesn’t appear to be taking any time off for the holidays. A day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJI) posted its largest ever single day points gain, the market appears poised to head in the opposite direction.  The up and down is perhaps not that surprising...