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US oil boom reduces Middle East influence on oil price
January 7th, 2016
The US oil boom has changed the world’s geopolitics of energy, reducing the influence of the Middle East on oil prices, the American Petroleum Institute (API) said on Wednesday. “The American energy renaissance” is the key reason why the ...
Gold price firmer on pick-up in Middle East tensions
January 4th, 2016
Chinese equities circuit breakers kick-in after 7 percent fall in the CSI Precious metals are mixed with gold and silver prices up around 0.9 percent with the gold price at $1,070, while the industrial precious metals are weaker with ...
Chinese markets halt trading for day after shares plunge
January 4th, 2016
Chinese stocks plunged Monday, spurring a trading halt for the rest of the session, and leading stock markets in Asia Pacific lower after feeble manufacturing surveys revived concerns over the slowdown of the mainland’s economy. The Shanghai Composite tumbled 6.85 percent ...
Not Even OPEC Can Fix Oil Glut
December 30th, 2015
Surprisingly strong crude output in the U.S. and Mideast over the past year pushed oil prices to their lowest levels in more than a decade. But for investors trying to determine whether the oil market is close to a ...
The 25 financial events that shaped the year 2015
December 30th, 2015
As we are close to move from year 2015 to year 2016, OneStopBrokers has collected and presents the major Financial events happened in 2015. 2015 was a year that the Eurozone was almost collapsed. We all witnessed a possible ...
UAE leads Middle East’s internet economy
December 28th, 2015
Country stands at the forefront of the ‘internet of Things’ revolution, BCG says The UAE leads the Middle East when it comes to the maturity of the internet economy, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s 2015 e-Intensity Index ...
Commodity losses
December 18th, 2015
Markets have been extraordinarily complacent about the bad debts building up in the financial system. In the wake of the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates this week, the effect on debt was barely mentioned in the subsequent analysis ...
OPEC to hold emergency meeting if oil prices fail to recover
December 16th, 2015
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will hold urgent talks, if crude prices don’t recover by February, according to OPEC president and Nigeria’s oil minister Emmanuel Kachikwu. “It is expected that the upward trend in oil prices will ...
Oil dips below $37 as OPEC pumps most in three years
December 11th, 2015
Oil fell below $37 a barrel on Thursday, after new data showed OPEC is still pumping like there is no tomorrow. The mighty oil cartel produced 31.7 million barrels a day in November, its latest monthly report shows. That ...
Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People
December 10th, 2015
Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the divergence between Fed tightening and ECB/BoJ/BoC easing. This widening gap is a perfect storm ...
