Energy News
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SpaceX boss Elon Musk is alleged to have had sex with a woman who was an intern at the rocket company, when she was still at university, before hiring her to a senior role years later and trying to embark on a relationship. The allegation is one of a number about Mr Musk’s advances towards and consensual sexual encounters with staff members which have been ...
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The technical carbon, which is heavily used in industry, especially in the production of tires, will now be produced in the wastewater treatment process. This will not only add economic benefits but also help reduce pollution. The daily processing of 120 tons of sludge into diesel and carbon black is the company's top priority for this year. This fuel can ...
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When talking about the structure of the forward curve in the WTI futures market, there are two market terms traders should be familiar with. 1) Contango, when the forward price of a futures contract is higher than the spot price. 2) Backwardation, when the forward price of the futures contract is lower than the spot price. An oil lesson with Bob Iaccino ...
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Although the Federal Reserve could still lower interest rates one or two times this year, it continues to signal that it is not in a hurry to adjust its monetary policy just yet. However, analysts note that despite the U.S.’s reluctance to ease interest rates, the gold market remains well supported as global rates start to fall. The diverging monetary ...
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post: MORE FED'S POWELL Q&A: IN HOUSING, FOUND THERE ARE 'BIT LAGS' IN DATA THAT MAY TAKE 'SEVERAL YEARS' BEFORE IMPROVEMENTS SHOW UP #Powell #FOMC #FederalReserve post: MORE FED'S POWELL Q&A: CREDIT CARD DEFAULTS GOING UP BUT NOT AT HIGH LEVEL; HOUSEHOLD IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE BUT NOT AS GOOD AS LAST COUPLE YEARS #Powell #FOMC #FederalReserve post: POWELL: IF WE SEE UNEMPLOYMENT MORE THAN WE FORECAST, WE WOULD VIEW THAT AS UNEXPECTED WEAKENING post: Fed’s Powell: For Fed the dollar is “just another financial variable,” the currency has been strong but “we don’t think of it as benefitting or hurting the U.S.”
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video Natural gas traded inside day on Wednesday following a strong close on Tuesday. At the time of this writing the high for the day was 3.13 and the low 2.995. Support for the day was seen on a test of the 78.6% Fibonacci level. Although Wednesday’s trading retraced much of Tuesday’s advance, support was indicated at a price level previously identified ...
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As President Biden and Group of Seven (G7) Leaders prepare to meet this week in Italy, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is issuing sweeping new measures guided by G7 ...
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Markets took back about half of this morning’s post-CPI rally (recap here) as the full set of FOMC communications worked through. Some of that cheapening occurred in response to ...
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China's consumer prices gained for the fourth straight month in May in the latest sign of a steady domestic demand recovery, official data showed Wednesday. The consumer price ...
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In conjunction with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on June 11–12, 2024, meeting participants submitted their projections of the most likely outcomes for real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the unemployment rate, and inflation for each year from 2024 to 2026 and over the longer run. Each participant’s projections were based on information available at the time of the meeting, together with her or his assessment of appropriate monetary policy—including a path for the federal funds rate and its longer-run value—and assumptions about other factors likely to affect economic outcomes. The longer-run projections represent each participant’s assessment of the value to which each variable would be expected to converge, over time, under appropriate monetary policy and in the absence of further shocks to the economy. “Appropriate monetary policy” is defined as the future path of policy that each participant deems most likely to foster outcomes for economic activity and inflation that best satisfy his or her individual interpretation of the statutory mandate to promote maximum employment and price stability. post: FED’S MEDIAN RATE FORECAST END-’24 AT 5.1%; PREV. 4.6% FED’S MEDIAN RATE FORECAST END-’25 AT 4.1%; PREV. 3.9% FED’S MEDIAN RATE FORECAST END-’26 AT 3.1%; PREV. 3.1% FED’S MEDIAN RATE FORECAST LONGER-RUN AT 2.8%; PREV. 2.6% post: FED POLICYMAKERS SEE END-2024 PCE INFLATION AT 2.6% VERSUS 2.4% IN MARCH PROJECTION; CORE SEEN AT 2.8% VERSUS 2.6% post: FED OFFICIALS RAISE 2024 INFLATION FORECAST TO 2.6%, UP FROM 2.4% IN MARCH FORECAST FED OFFICIALS SEE 4% UNEMPLOYMENT AT END OF 2024, UNCHANGED FROM MARCH FORECAST FED OFFICIALS SEE 2.1% GDP GROWTH IN 2024, UNCHANGED FROM MARCH FORECAST
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In April 2024, compared with March 2024, seasonally adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.1% in the euro area and increased by 0.5% in the EU, according to first estimates ...
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post: BoC’s Macklem: MonPol No Longer Needs To Be As Restrictive As It Has Been - Still Need To Get Inflation Down Further To Our TargetsMacklem: Central banking - Navigating in a new world Good afternoon. It’s always great to be back in Montréal, my hometown. And I could not be more pleased to be here with Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Thank you for visiting us in Canada. Since I’m on my home turf, let me start us off with a few words about where we find ourselves in economic history. Key lessons from high inflation Canada and Germany have just come through the biggest inflation we’ve experienced in 40 years. And as painful as this has been, it has highlighted some lessons. I will focus on three in the Canadian context. First, we ignore the supply-side of the economy at our peril. As central banks, we tend to focus on the demand side because that’s what we influence with interest rates. But coming out of the pandemic, we learned that it is much easier to restore demand than supply. High inflation was a stark reminder that supply shocks can cumulate and persist—and when they intersect with periods of strong demand, the inflationary consequences can be large. Looking ahead, technological change, geopolitical tensions, climate change, and shifting trade and investment flows all suggest we may experience more supply shocks than we did in the past. Businesses and central banks need to be ready. Second, inflation is painful—that’s not a new lesson, but for many of our citizens it was their first experience with high inflation. And it has been painful. Inflation harms people and the economy, and it corrodes trust in our market-based system. Th
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Brent oil quotes continue to move within the development of growth and a bearish channel. At the time of publication of the forecast, the price of Brent oil is $82.52 per barrel. Moving averages indicate a short-term bearish trend in oil. Prices are again testing the area between the signal lines, which indicates pressure from sellers of Black Gold and a ...
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video Natural gas traded inside day on Wednesday following a strong close on Tuesday. At the time of this writing the high for the day was 3.13 and the low 2.995. Support for the day was seen on a test of the 78.6% Fibonacci level. Although Wednesday’s trading retraced much of Tuesday’s advance, support was indicated at a price level previously identified ...
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The world's two most relied-upon crude oil benchmarks are WTI, predominantly traded on CME Group, and Brent, its European peer. Their attractiveness to financial investors is subject to a number of moving parts: the underlying supply/demand balance, economic considerations, weather and geopolitics. The weekly reports of the Commitment of Traders provide a ...