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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Stock photo shows an oil tanker at a terminal
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Oil Tops $50 for First Time Since February

By Andres Guerra Luz (Bloomberg) — Oil surpassed $50 a barrel as Saudi Arabia pledged to voluntarily cut output by an extra 1 million

January 5, 2021
Total Views: 1242

Tuesday, November 3, 2020
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OPEC Boosts Output Despite COVID Sending Oil Crashing

By Grant Smith and Julian Lee (Bloomberg) OPEC’s effort to shore up world oil markets during the pandemic is facing a new threat — from the group’s

November 3, 2020
Total Views: 101

Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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Oil Slides After ETFs Move Into Later-Dated Contracts

By Mike Jeffers (Bloomberg) — Oil fell after the biggest oil ETF said it would sell out of its June WTI futures position as physical oil storage levels

April 28, 2020
Total Views: 45

Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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Oil Meltdown Widens With June Plunging Below $10 a Barrel

By Olivia Raimonde (Bloomberg) — Oil’s meltdown spread in to the June contract as the price plummeted $10 in New York. West Texas Intermediate plunged

April 21, 2020
Total Views: 89

Monday, April 20, 2020
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Energy Equities Hang On Despite Negative Oil Price, Tankers Surge

By Michael Bellusci (Bloomberg) — In a historic Monday for crude prices, energy-exposed equities didn’t quite crater as some may have envisioned. The

April 20, 2020
Total Views: 65

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Spot U.S Oil Futures Crash Below Zero. Here’s What the Experts are Saying

NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) – Energy traders fled from the expiring May U.S. oil futures contract in a frenzy on Monday, sending the contract deep into

April 20, 2020
Total Views: 96

Monday, March 30, 2020
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Tanker Rates Double as Oil Contango Spreads

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, March 30 (Reuters) – Supertanker freight rates are on the rise for a second time this month as producers, refiners and

March 30, 2020
Total Views: 495

Thursday, March 19, 2020
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Tankers Drop Anchor as Traders See Profit in Price Rout

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — Oil tankers starting to drop anchor as traders start deploying the vessels to keep barrels at sea in the wake of the price

March 19, 2020
Total Views: 151

Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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Oil’s 24% Plunge in a Day Signals No End in Sight for Meltdown

By Alex Longley, Javier Blas and Jackie Davalos (Bloomberg) — Oil is ensnared in such a crisis that Wednesday’s 24% plunge in New York wasn’t even

March 18, 2020
Total Views: 139

Monday, March 9, 2020
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Oil in Grips of Chaos After Price War Triggers Historic Crash

By James Thornhill (Bloomberg) — Oil clawed back some of its biggest drop in a generation as a battle for market share between Saudi Arabia and Russia

March 9, 2020
Total Views: 113

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
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Oil Trims Losses on Conflicting Signals About Saudi Recovery

By David Marino and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Oil pared an earlier decline on contradicting reports about when Saudi Arabia will restore production

September 17, 2019
Total Views: 49

Monday, August 5, 2019
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Offshore

Oil Falls on Rising Trade War Tensions

By Kiran Dhillon (Bloomberg) –The international oil benchmark closed below $60 dollars a barrel for the first time in almost two months as worsening

August 5, 2019
Total Views: 36

Friday, July 19, 2019
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Oil Jumps as Tanker Seizure Escalates Tensions With Iran

By Harkiran Dhillon (Bloomberg) Oil climbed after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp said it seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, raising

July 19, 2019
Total Views: 84

Thursday, February 21, 2019
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Twelve Empty Supertankers Reveal The Truth About Today’s Oil Market

by Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) They are slowly plowing their way across thousands of miles of ocean toward America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline. As they do,

February 21, 2019
Total Views: 615

Friday, April 20, 2018
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Trump Tweets on ‘Artificially’ High Oil Prices: “Oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at sea”

By Susan Heavey and Rania El Gamal WASHINGTON/JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, April 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump accused OPEC on Friday of

April 20, 2018
Total Views: 47

Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Oil Markets Dip As Irma Approaches United States
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Oil Markets Dip As Irma Approaches United States

Henning Gloystein (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Wednesday as crude demand remained subdued on the back of refinery closures following Hurricane Harvey

September 5, 2017
Total Views: 30

Monday, March 20, 2017
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Oil Drops as U.S. Drilling Growth Threatens to Counter OPEC Cuts

By Mark Shenk (Bloomberg) — Oil fell as a U.S. drilling revival undermines the potential for OPEC output curbs to rebalance the market. Futures

March 20, 2017
Total Views: 37

Thursday, August 11, 2016
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IEA: Oil Markets to Tighten Slowly After Months of Oversupply

By Dmitry Zhdannikov MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Oil markets will begin to tighten in the second half of 2016 but at a slow pace as global demand growth

August 11, 2016
Total Views: 61

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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World Better Forget About $100 Oil Coming Back, Norway Says

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — The oil market is rebalancing, but don’t count on ever seeing prices at $100 a barrel again: that’s the clear message

May 24, 2016
Total Views: 63

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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Cheaper Bunkers Could Both Hinder and Help Container Lines, Says BIMCO

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Lower bunker costs are “very welcome in an industry struggling to make a profit”, says shipping industry association

January 27, 2016
Total Views: 46