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By Phil Flynn |
April 30, 2013
Natural gas bears still bemoan the cold as it appears that gas prices have to continue to soar because winter refuses to go quietly. The market continues to rise to make sure we refill storage.
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By Dominick Chirichella |
April 25, 2013
Heading into this morning’s EIA weekly Nat Gas report the futures market is hovering around the trading range lower support level and barely remaining above it.
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By Dominick Chirichella |
April 24, 2013
Firming equity markets in the U.S. were enough to bolster oil prices after their negative start on Tuesday reversing the selling from the decline in China’s PMI data.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 24, 2013
So for oil, remember you can't fight the Fed or even the ECB and you can't outlast the guys who can print the cash. But really from a technical standpoint, the oil market was probably ready to bottom anyway.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 23, 2013
Oil prices fell as the flash HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index for April fell to 50.5 in April from 51.6 the month before as new export orders shrank in China. The long-term natural gas story is getting out.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 19, 2013
OPEC is showing more concern about the rapid drop in oil prices. While a call from the hawks for a meeting is not unusual, it seems that OPEC special meeting or not will more than likely reign in production unless prices rebound dramatically.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 18, 2013
Words like depression and deflation are again being talked about and it is possible that the commodity collapse in gold, copper and oil is sending an ominous warning about the direction of the global economy.
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By Stephen Kirkland and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
April 17, 2013
Global stocks fell amid losses in industrial metals and disappointing earnings from Bank of America Corp. and others. The euro weakened as Germany’s central bank chief Jens Weidmann reportedly said European policy makers may cut rates if needed.
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By Dominick Chirichella |
April 17, 2013
Is the worst of the risk asset selling over or was Tuesday’s trading activity just a bit of short covering rally in a broader downtrend that is just getting underway? The market sentiment tends to quickly react to changes in the status of the global economy.
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By Dominick Chirichella |
April 10, 2013
After a few days of short covering the oil complex is starting today’s session on the defensive after a bearish API fundamental snapshot along with a weak demand projection by the EIA in their monthly Short Term Energy Outlook report.