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OPEC Production Declines Despite Iran’s Efforts
March 16th, 2016
The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report just came out. The charts are “Crude Only”production and do not reflect condensate production. Also the charts, except for Libya, are not zero based. I chose to amplify the change rather than the total. OPEC is ...
U.S. Retail Sales Fell 0.1% in February
March 16th, 2016
January revised to a decrease on lower auto, gas sales American consumers are showing renewed signs of caution amid continued financial-market volatility, clouding the outlook for a segment of the economy that had been a bright spot. U.S. retail ...
Why Our Financial System Is Like the Titanic
March 15th, 2016
The “unsinkable” global financial system is rushing headlong toward its encounter with the iceberg. Why did the Titanic sink, despite being considered unsinkable? The conventional answer is the design of its watertight compartments was flawed: the watertight bulkheads were ...
What oil freeze? Saudi Arabia and Russia pump more
March 15th, 2016
So much for that agreement to freeze output. The latest oil market data reveal that both Russia and Saudi Arabia ramped up their oil production in February, despite talks about supply caps. The two oil countries agreed to freeze output at ...
Oil Prices Sink As Investors Lose Faith In OPEC Freeze
March 11th, 2016
Two hundred and twenty-two years after John Stone patented the pile driver, and the oil market is trying to dodge getting hammered today. After yesterday’s EIA-inspired hullabaloo, oil is looking lower. Here are seven things to consider on this ...
CFTC: Banc de Binary Ltd and ET Binary Options Ltd are among Binary Options Firms ordered to pay $9 Million penalty
March 10th, 2016
Federal Court Orders Banc de Binary Ltd., ET Binary Options Ltd., BO Systems Ltd., BDB Services Ltd., and Oren Shabat Laurent to Pay More than $9 Million in Restitution and a Civil Monetary Penalty for Violating the CFTC’s Ban ...
China And Fracking: The Pillars Of “The Recovery” Are Crumbling
March 10th, 2016
When historians sort out this era of once-a-decade financial bubbles, they’ll marvel at how dissimilar the drivers of each boom were. The junk bonds of the 1980s were essentially leveraged tools for extracting wealth from companies. The dot-coms of ...
Volkswagen’s U.S. CEO Leaves Suddenly After ‘Mutual Agreement’
March 10th, 2016
Horn retained dealers’ support even as VW sales fell in U.S. `What could he have done, besides give cars away?’: Analyst Michael Horn, leader of the Volkswagen brand in the U.S., abruptly left the automaker as its American sales ...
Asia markets mixed as traders digest central bank decisions, China data
March 10th, 2016
Asian markets traded mixed as traders digested another round of Chinese economic data and interest rate decisions from central banks in New Zealand and South Korea. The Japanese Nikkei 225 was up 1.45 percent. South Korea’s Kospiadded 0.82 percent, while Down Under, ...
Russia’s Oil Dilemma, Explained
March 9th, 2016
Kremlin needs to plug hole in budget stemming from crude slump Higher tax could cause output to drop from post-Soviet record While the world focuses on Russia’s Oil-freeze talks with OPEC, there are discussions behind closed doors in the Kremlin ...
