Friday, October 16, 2015
A market component driving down oil prices may surprise many privy to the market. An inordinate number of oil producing countries aren’t responding to the market climate and continuing production as normal. This despite the plummeting price of the resource thanks to...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Tough times continue in the oil market. With prices having dropped once again to below $47 per barrel, after briefly jumping 3% as a conclusive overreaction, estimates show price per barrel to dip well into the thirties, even. Though...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
In the latest sentiment crude will plummet by over 100% from its current figure to below $20 per barrel, investors continued to sell of their shares in the commodity. In another blow to the already crippled market, producers are being advised to...
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Monday, October 05, 2015
OPEC has much less to do with the oil market than most might realize. OPEC's problem is it let prices stay as high as they did for so long. This allowed new competition to the market from outside its cartel, namely from US oil ...
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Monday, October 05, 2015
Oil prices have wreaked havoc on the market over the past year. Most people have pointed to OPEC as the reason prices have plunged and thousands of U.S. oil workers are out of work. But is OPEC really to blame for the drop ...
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Monday, October 05, 2015
Vladimir Putin’s order to begin bombing targets in Syria this week has reminded the world not much has changed in Moscow. But on the same token, it has leaders wondering exactly what Russia’s ultimate strategic goal is with the aggression in Syria. ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
The oil market is continuing to struggle with no end in sight. With the price per barrel having dropped under $50 by nearly $10 since the end of the summer driving season—pre-Labor Day—the market keeps getting hit. And with factors at play...
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Friday, September 04, 2015
“If oil prices stay low longer enough, supply will go down naturally.” This, according to Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, is the theory driving Russia’s decision to not cut oil production. Russia intends to continue to flood the...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2015
What’s happening with oil right now is eerily similar to what happened in housing 8 years ago. If you don’t see the parallels, consider in 2005 construction in suburban Phoenix, Las Vegas and Tampa was booming. Everything from strip plazas to entire...
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Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Following nearly a decade of collective record profits, US oil companies have been forced to decommission about 40% of the rigs fully functioning no more than two years ago. Having dropped 50% since June of 2014, the price of a barrel of...
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