energy imports

Energy independence and the WTI/Brent spread

By Jack Malone | April 14, 2014

The WTI (West Texas Intermediate) vs. Brent spread is an interesting relationship that energy traders have been looking at over the past couple of weeks.

Oil prices finally breaking as global supply jitters start to ease

By Phil Flynn | April 3, 2014

EIA reports total U.S. net imports of energy declined in 2013 to their lowest level in more than two decades.

India’s rupee plunges most in 20 years to record low

By Jeanette Rodrigues, Santanu Chakraborty and Shikhar Balwani, Bloomberg | August 28, 2013

India’s rupee plummeted the most in two decades to a record as a surge in oil prices threatened to worsen the current account and push the economy toward its biggest crisis since 1991. Bonds fell.

India's energy ties with Iran unsettle Washington

By James Stafford | June 18, 2013

India's search for hydrocarbons to fuel its economy has managed rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad, and leaving the Indian Treasury fretting about how to pay for its oil imports.

Abe will ask Obama for shale exports as Japan’s gas bill soars

By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Sally Bakewell, Bloomberg | February 20, 2013

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will ask U.S. President Barack Obama to allow shale gas exports as the world’s third-largest economy grapples with soaring energy costs after 2011’s nuclear disaster closed reactors.

Energy report: Abundant gas

By Phil Flynn | December 15, 2009

Daily fundamental energy analysis from Phil Flynn

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