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Two Changing Trends In Oil Shipping
Both U.S. and Asian markets have seen some remarkable changes in oil and gasoline shipping in the last couple of months → Read More
Can Iraq Dethrone Saudi Arabia In This Crucial Oil Market?
After significantly cutting its crude exports to the U.S., the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has also slashed its oil flows to Asia → Read More
Iraq Seizes Saudi Share In U.S. Oil Market
With Saudi crude loadings to the U.S. falling by more than 50% since the beginning of the year, Iraq has boosted crude exports to this crucial market → Read More
Expect Strong Crude Draws As Refineries Recover
Crude inventories could shrink significantly as U.S. refineries are racing to churn out gasoline and distillates as crack spreads look particularly good after hurricane season → Read More
This Crude Oil Benchmark Just Rallied To A Three-Year High
The price of the Omani crude benchmark has just rallied to over a three-year high, seemingly driven higher by strong demand from Asia → Read More
Saudi Arabia's production cuts are boosting oil prices
Saudi imports to the U.S. are down to their lowest since February 2015. → Read More
Oil Prices Slip On OPEC Deal Disappointment
Oil prices fell slightly on Thursday morning after OPEC announced to extend the current deal with 9 months, disappointing investors that hoped for more → Read More
Oil Prices Continue To Face Pressure From Brimming Inventories
Oil prices fell on Wednesday morning after the U.S. EIA inventory data reflected yet another strong build to crude inventories → Read More
What Really Caused The EIA Oil Draw?
Crude prices are rebounding today, following news from both the API and EIA of a crude draw, but this draw may well be temporary → Read More
Oil Could Rise Further On Stronger Asian Crude Demand
A stronger demand from Asian Pacific nations combined with falling domestic production in these nations is expected to bump up oil prices → Read More
Market Currents: US oil imports from Nigeria at 3-year high
One hundred and seventy-two years after Stuart Perry patented the gasoline engine, and oil is chugging higher once more. As a decent crude draw is expected from the weekly EIA inventory report, and as → Read More
Market Currents: The growing prominence of Iranian oil exports
One hundred and thirty-three years after the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic, and crude is trying to navigate troubled water once again. Choppiness today comes courtesy of a stronger US dollar a → Read More
Market Currents: Six things to consider in oil markets today
Two hundred and thirty years after Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals, and the oil market is adjusting its focus once again. As the pendulum of market sentiment swings b → Read More
Market Currents: Five things to consider in oil markets today
One hundred and forty-three years after Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets, and the oil market is trying to make strides higher once again. But keeps changing its mind. Here ar → Read More
Market Currents: Five things to consider in oil markets today
Forty two years to the day after Erno Rubik invented the Rubik's cube, and the oil market is looking puzzled. As the fear of a potentially hugely huge 0.25% U.S. interest rate hike in June reverberate → Read More
Market Currents: Five things to consider in the oil market today
Thirty-eight years after 'The Buddy Holly Story' had its world premiere, and everyday, its a getting closer ($50 crude that is). After a deluge of economic data overnight, and ahead of the weekly EIA → Read More
Market Currents: Six things to consider in oil markets today
One hundred and forty-one years to the day after the first Kentucky Derby was run, and crude oil's gallop higher has now slowed to a trot. As focus shifts towards the weekly inventory reports (a crude → Read More
Market Currents: Seven things to consider in crude oil markets today
Thirty-one years after Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA, and supply outages are ensuring that a rally is a slam dunk for oil today. Here are seven things to consider in the crude → Read More
Market Currents: Crude oil screaming lower on Friday the 13th…
And it's an exciting end to an eventful week in the oil market on this Friday the 13th. In fitting fashion, crude was screaming lower earlier, chased off by a stronger dollar (apparently in a hockey m → Read More
Market Currents: Crude rally unwinding despite bullish IEA report
One hundred and sixty-nine years after William Clayton invented the odometer, and the oil market is trying to continue its journey higher. Despite a bullish-tilted monthly report from the IEA, the spe → Read More