(Bloomberg) — The US crude market’s structure is signaling oversupply for the first time in almost a year, the latest indicator of the scale of the dramatic slump in the nearest section of the oil futures market. The front-month spread, which reflects short-term supply-demand balances, traded in contango — the industry term for the bearish […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil edged higher after a punishing week as traders weighed up the outlook for global demand amid mounting recessionary concerns. West Texas Intermediate rose above $79 a barrel after collapsing more than 7% last week to end at the lowest close since mid-January. The decline was the US benchmark’s fourth consecutive weekly drop, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — As the Federal Reserve’s intensifying fight against inflation sinks every asset on Wall Street, investors are asking: Why buy now when things could get cheaper still? What started as a mild stock selloff this month has morphed into a deepening interest rate-spurred rout that’s wiped out virtually all of the summer gains in […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Equities extended declines on Friday, with an index of global stocks on track for the worst week since June, while a gauge of the dollar soared to a fresh record, reflecting bets for outsize Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. US futures dropped, suggesting the selloff that drove the S&P 500 index to its […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil headed for a back-to-back weekly loss, burdened by demand concerns, rising stockpiles, and the possibility the Biden administration may make a fresh release from emergency reserves. West Texas Intermediate edged toward $84 a barrel, but is still down almost 4% this week after hitting the lowest since January. There’s concern consumption will […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil headed for a third monthly drop, the longest losing run in more than two years, on concern that tighter monetary policy will hit growth and China presses on with its Covid Zero strategy. West Texas Intermediate fell as much as $4.09 a barrel from high to low on Tuesday, putting it on […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil dropped below $100 a barrel, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. saying that a plunge driven by fears a recession will hurt demand was overdone. West Texas Intermediate fell as much as 1.9% to trade around $98 a barrel. Brent crude fell over more than $10 on Tuesday, its third-largest ever in dollar […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil futures dropped below $100 a barrel for the first time since May as concerns grow that a global economic slowdown will ultimately hobble demand. West Texas Intermediate crude futures dropped as much as 9.3% to near $98 a barrel. Oil was pressured in a low liquidity session on Tuesday as equities fell […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil fluctuated as investors weighed concerns that a global slowdown will erode demand against still-solid physical market signals. West Texas Intermediate rose toward $109 a barrel after dropping more than 1% earlier in the session. Trading volumes will likely be weaker than usual on Monday given the holiday in the US for the […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil’s rally fizzled following a report that OPEC members are exploring the idea of exempting Russia from its oil-production deal, which could open the door for other producers to pump more oil. West Texas Intermediate futures in New York shed nearly all of its gains to settle under $115 after earlier rising almost […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Oil posted its biggest weekly loss in more than 10 years after the Biden administration ordered an unprecedented release of U.S. strategic reserves to tame rampant prices. West Texas Intermediate dropped 1% on Friday and over $14 dollars this week, the most since 2011. The U.S. plans to release 1 million barrels a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest exchange-traded fund posted its worst monthly outflow in its near three-decade history with investors selling the Monday stock rebound en masse. The $407 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known by its ticker SPY, in January saw its biggest redemption since launching in 1993, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — How much further is the Federal Reserve willing to let stocks slide? That’s the burning question of the moment for financial markets, and Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, has an answer: as much as 20% more. That’d put the S&P 500 below 3,500, or close to where it was before […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Jeremy Grantham got the market’s attention with his “super bubble” call on U.S. stocks. Now he wants to get an even more alarming and urgent message out, one his critics may find harder to accept. The “Goldilocks” period of the past 25 years is ending, and the world needs to prepare for a […]
Read MoreMario Tama/Getty Images To say investors are bullish on oil again would be an understatement. In a year that has begun with serious uncertainty—largely about the path of interest rates and tech stocks — a positive call on oil is as close to a consensus opinion as it gets. In fact, traders are making bets […]
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