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Oil hits five and a half year low under $55 on supply glut
January 5th, 2015
Oil prices dropped to fresh 5-1/2-year lows on Monday on worries about a surplus of global supplies and lackluster demand. Russia’s oil output hit a post-Soviet high last year, averaging 10.58 million barrels per day (bpd), up 0.7 percent ...
Euro Extends Slide on ECB Outlook; Asian Stocks, Oil Slip
January 5th, 2015
The euro weakened to an almost nine-year low and Asian stocks fell amid concern Greece will exit the European currency union. Oil slumped to its lowest level since 2009, while silver and Chinese shares climbed. The euro depreciated 0.5 percent to ...
Russia boosts 2014 oil output by 0.6% to post-Soviet high of 256 mln tons
January 3rd, 2015
Russia’s crude oil output rose by 0.6% in 2014 from the previous year to a post-Soviet high of 526.75 million tons, according to data released by the fuel and energy sector’s main statistical center on Saturday. At the same ...
Global Oil: Production, Politics, Price and Pain
December 23rd, 2014
The drop of oil prices in the past six months is all over the headlines with all sorts of opinions about how this is good or bad for economies around the world, consumers and corporations. Like everything there are ...
Cheap-Oil Era Tilts Geopolitical Power to U.S.
November 20th, 2014
A new age of abundant and cheap energy supplies is redrawing the world’s geopolitical landscape, weakening and potentially threatening the legitimacy of some governments while enhancing the power of others. Some changes already are evident. Surging U.S. oil production enabled America ...
Oil price swoon pulls WTI crude to 3-year low
November 5th, 2014
Oil prices fell to a three-year low Tuesday as Saudi Arabia cut prices of crude exported to the U.S., raising the specter of a bruising battle for market share that threatens the U.S. energy boom but could bring ultra-low ...
BHP to test U.S. oil export ban by selling without formal ruling
November 5th, 2014
BHP Billiton Ltd is set to be the first company to export lightly processed ultra-light U.S. oil without explicit permission from the government, further testing the limits of an increasingly contentious ban on foreign sales. Eight months after two ...
Energy groups left bruised as falling oil prices bite into profits
October 29th, 2014
Tumbling oil prices have hit the earnings of two big London-listed energy companies, in one of the first tangible signs of how the oil supply glut is reverberating across the global economy. FTSE 100 oil and gas producers BP ...
Eurozone fails to benefit from weak currency as oil price slides
October 20th, 2014
Pity the policy makers given the job of rescuing the eurozone from deflation. The unorthodox steps the European Central Bank has taken since June – including a programme of private-sector asset purchases – have caused a steep fall in ...
Five reasons oil prices are dropping
October 14th, 2014
As oil prices continue to fall, analysts and producers are trying to wrap their heads around the reasons and identify a floor price. Even though crude benchmarks like Brent and WTI keep dropping, the cost of finding oil continues ...