Energy Management Institute

• Oil trading on Iran tensions, inventories secondary

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  January 18, 2012

  Oil continues to hang on geopolitical tensions, particularly those related to Iran. As such, expect inventories to remain secondary

• Oil torn between slowing economies and supply interruptions

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  January 11, 2012

  At the moment oil prices are still being mostly driven by the tensions building in the Middle East between Iran and the West coupled with the direction of the euro and the US dollar

• Oil hanging on Iran, inventories secondary

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  January 4, 2012

  Oil prices are being mostly driven by the tensions building in the Middle East between Iran and the West coupled with the direction of the euro and the US dollar

• Oil sees short covering rally as Europe moves to background

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  December 21, 2011

  With the macroeconomic data out of the US continuing to outperform and as long as nothing new emerges out of Europe the current short covering rally could continue

• Oil remains coupled to dollar as focus still on Europe

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  December 14, 2011

  Oil remains mostly coupled to the direction of the USD and the euro and will remain in this pattern for the foreseeable future or until Europe moves into the background

• Oil inventories secondary, market hostage to Europe

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  December 7, 2011

  The market remains hostage to the evolving situation in Europe that has been unfolding once again this week as discussed above with inventory data a secondary driver

• Oil inventories stay in back seat, Europe and Iran driving

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  November 30, 2011

  The market remains hostage to the evolving situation in Europe that has been unfolding once again this week as discussed above with inventory data a secondary driver

• Macro issues driving oil, fundamentals take backseat

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  November 23, 2011

  Market participants continue to follow the tick by tick direction of equities and the US dollar because they are both the primary price drivers for oil once again

• Oil inventories take a back seat to geopolitical factors

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  November 16, 2011

  At the moment all market participants are continuing to follow the tick by tick direction of equities and the US dollar as they are both the primary price drivers for oil once again

• EIA revises oil consumption projections higher

  By Dominick A. Chirichella  |  November 9, 2011

  In its latest short-term outlook, the EIA is projecting for world oil consumption to grow in 2012, mostly from expansion in emerging economies