In its largest hike since 1994, the Federal Reserve raised rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, or 75 basis points, with oil prices responding by drawing down just under 1%. Wall Street had largely […]
Struggling to re-establish its shredded and ridiculed credibility as inflation fighter, the Fed today concluded the most hawkish Fed meeting in decades. Following the CPI report last week that apparently had blown all doorknobs off inside […]
Top 10 S&P 500 Sell-Offs During First Five Months Numera Analytics Volatility remains the major feature of financial markets. You are correct if you interpret the word “volatility” to include a downtrend in equity prices. […]
Houston-based Callon has updated its operational capital budget to a range of $790 million to $810 million for the full year, up from previous guidance of $725 million published in February. Production guidance of 101-105,000 […]
Mexico faces budget pressures as it now spends double the money on subsidizing domestic fuel to keep inflation in check than the money it receives from exporting oil, even at prices above $100 per barrel. […]
The United States has weathered energy shocks before. Broad price swings for a barrel of crude are nothing new. But we have never seen an energy crunch like 2022: Reeling from a pandemic, confronting climate […]
At the start of Q1 2022, global oil and gas industry contract activity was stifled due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, in the second half of the quarter a minor increase in the number of […]
The global economy is powered primarily by energy and debt, with energy-providing production and debt-providing finance. Today, central banks are aggressively increasing interest rates in order to counter inflation, but the move could leave commodity […]
In a world with inadequate resources relative to population, conflicts are likely to become increasingly common. World economic growth very much depends on growing energy consumption. There is little reason to believe that Russia will […]
Gold was steady after capping a weekly advance, as investors weighed the latest developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine against the impact of tighter monetary policy to curb inflation. Bullion climbed 1.9% last week as […]
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