Sunday’s surprise OPEC+ sends oil and oil stocks higher Monday (with slight retreat today)
On Sunday, April 2 OPEC+ announced a surprise oil production cut of more than 1 million barrels a day. The organization had not so long ago promised that it would hold supply steady. Saudi Arabia led the move by pledging its own 500,000 barrel-a-day supply reduction....
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week U.S . Oil Production not Rising as Expected
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifth YouTube video. This week’s Trend of the Week: U.S. Oil Production is Not Rising as Expected. Oil prices have averaged $100 per barrel over 2022–a figure that would normally lead oil companies to expand production and...
Just when you thought the Ukraine war couldn’t get worse–it does with huge negative implications for oil prices
On Monday Russia launched “a massive strike (the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin) on civilian infrastructure, including crowded train stations, in Ukraine in retaliation for the explosions Saturday that destroyed a crucial ridge linking...
OPEC+ carries through on yesterday’s leaks and cuts oil production; oil and oil stocks continue rally
Today, Wednesday, October 5, OPEC and its allies, including Russia, approved a two million barrel-a-day cut in oil production. This is the largest cut in production since the onset of the pandemic. Here’s the key paragraph in the OPEC+ statement: “Adjust...
OPEC+ “considers” cutting oil production and oil and oil stocks surge today
All it takes is a report that OPEC+, the group of oil-producing countries that includes Saudi Arabia and Russia, is considering a big cut in production at its meeting this week to send oil and oil stocks off to the races. As of noon New York time, on Monday, U.S....
Sorry Joe, that trip to Saudi Arabia didn’t result in more oil production
I hope that President Joe Biden got a T-shirt on his August trip to Saudi Arabia. You know, one that says “I went to Saudi Arabia and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” Because the U.S. President sure didn’t get a surge in OPEC oil production. In...
Oil prices now a battle between restored demand from China and more production from OPEC
Oil prices went a strong NOWHERE today, June 1, as the oil market struggled with news of the end of lockdowns in China, which would lead to higher demand, and speculation that OPEC would act to increase production. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate closed up...
EU agrees to partial ban–66%–of Russian oil imports
The European Union has finally found a way to agree on a partial ban on oil imports from Russia. The group has agreed to an immediate ban on imports arriving by sea. That covers about two-thirds of Russian imports. To get Hungary’s vote for the partial ban, the...
Natural gas prices soar–no summer slump in prices this year thanks to war in Ukraine
Normally at this time of year natural gas prices retreat and companies actually stash natural gas in storage for use during hurricane outages in the fall and winter heating season. Not this year, however. Today natural gas prices in the U.S. hit a new 18-year high. At...
Another round of higher oil prices headed our way
Today, April 21, reports from a number of different sources are pointing to lower oil production–which will mean higher oil prices. Even from current levels. And oil prices are significantly higher in the past three weeks. At 3:00 p.m. New York time today U.S....
Oil tumbles again–I think the selling is an over-reaction
Today, April 6, oil fell to the lowest since mid-March today. U.S.benchmark West Texas Intermediate closed below $97 a barrel at $96.23 (down 4.98%) for May delivery. International benchmark Brent lost 4.63% to close at $101.07 a barrel. The news driving the selloff:...
Please Watch my YouTube video: Trend of the Week: Don’t sell those oil stocks yet
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth-and sixteen YouTube video “Don’t Sell Your Oil Stocks Yet” went up today. Don’t sell those oil stocks yet! Back at the beginning...
Oil is up, stocks (outside energy) are down–how long will this anti-correlation last?
Oil rallied again today with U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate up 4.79% on the day to $114.79 a barrel and international benchmark Brent up 5.12% to $121.39 a barrel. So, naturally, oil and gas equities stocks are up today. And the broader market is down. What...
Airlines climb on oil drop, traffic pickup–now it gets tricky
Oil prices collapsed. And airlines reported a better than expected pick up in traffic. So airline stocks soared with the most stressed operators showing the biggest gains in their shares. Delta Air Lines (DAL) closed up 8.70% on the day. United Airlines (ULA) picked...
U.S. to ban Russian oil and natural gas–Brent hits $131 a barrel, WTI $127
The United States will ban imports of oil and natural gas from Russia, President Biden announced Tuesday. I’ve tried to pin down the exact timing and implementation of the ban (I don’t see these details in the executive order as released by the White...
Airline stocks take another whack on fears that higher jet fuel prices will require many to sell stock to raise capital
As far as I’ve been able to discover, it was a research note from Wolfe Research that began the negative “rethink.” Wolfe forecast that the airlines including United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL) were burning cash so fast because of the...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the first in the next generation of energy wars
Oil and other fossil fuels aren’t going to go quietly. And it’s extremely unlikely that the countries whose global power is predicated on oil are going to give up that power easily either. From this viewpoint, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the first...
Oil moves toward $95 a barrel on rising Ukraine war fears
International benchmark Brent crude jumped as much as 4.7% to $95 a barrel for the first time since 2014. Brent was up 23.68% and trading at $94.77 at 3 p.m. New York time Friday. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate, which normally trades below Brent in price, was...
Are oil prices headed lower? OPEC thinks so; Wall Street disagrees
OPEC has decided that the current global economic recovery is very fragile and that the smart course is to raise production only gradually. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said the global oil market will switch from being under-supplied to...
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I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My sixty-third YouTube video “Trend of the Week: Timing the Oil Stock Rally” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see...
Energy stocks let S&P 500 and Dow break losing streak
Most of the major U.S. stock indexes broke a five-day slide today thanks largely to gains in the energy sector as crude prices rallied to a six-week high. Indexes such as the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, with their energy...
Oil falls as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates agree on production levels
The dispute over oil production quotas between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that blew up the OPEC+ meeting two weeks ago looks to be over. Under the compromise, the UAE will see its baseline production level rise to 3.65 million barrels per day when the...
Watch my new YouTube video: “OPEC and the threat to green energy stocks
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The thirty-second YouTube video “OPEC and the threat to green energy stocks” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see...
OPEC+ is in crisis again–but since no one knows quite what the result is likely to be, we’ve had big swings in sentiment and prices in the oil market (and in banks, other commodities, and the inflation/deflation play) today
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its affiliated oil producers (OPEC+) abandoned their Monday meeting after days of tense talks failed to result in an agreement on a tentative deal to increase production, and even over how to measure production....
I’m selling Kinder Morgan out of my Dividend Portfolio
Like many (most? all?) oil-related stocks Kinder Morgan (KMI), the operator of 70,000 miles of natural gas pipelines, has moved up strongly during the recent rally in the price of oil. The stock, a member of my Dividend Portfolio since February 24, 2016, has gained...
Saudis surprise OPEC; oil soars by 5%
Today, January 5, Saudi Arabia shocked OPEC+ with a voluntary 1-million-barrel-per-day output cut. The announcement came after OPEC and Russia agreed to allow a 75,000 barrels a day increase in total production from Russia and Kazakhstan in February and March. On the...
Oil manages to creep higher today even with OPEC supply increase looming
Oil managed to close to the upside today, December 29, even though OPEC+ is set to add another 500,000 barrels a day to output starting in January. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate gained 0.76% to $47.98 a barrel. International benchmark Brent crude climbed...
Oil prices stall as Norway settles oil workers strike
Even as Hurricane Delta bears down on the Gulf Coast, oil prices fell today on news that oil workers in Norway had settled a strike that had shut down about 8% of the country’s production. The settlement will restore production at six fields already shut down by the...
U.S. oil shale rig count continues to drop
The number of active oil rigs in the United States fell by 4 to 172, Baker Hughes reported today. That’s the lowest level since 2005 in the days before the U.S. oil shale boom. The news is likely to get worse for U.S. producers and oil service companies. The...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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