Indonesia targets non-traditional markets in order to increase exports
Jul 17, 2015 09:36 am UTC| Commentary
Indonesias June trade report released on Wednesday, shows countrys monthly exportsin June rose by 5.91 percent to US$13.44 billion mom.Indonesias June trade report indicated some signs of stabilisation, consistent with...
ECB to reassess Greece ELA limit after one week
Jul 17, 2015 09:23 am UTC| Commentary
At todays meeting, the ECB Council raised the ELA ceiling by 0.9bn. The new limit would apply for one week, after which the ECB would reassess the situation.Draghi justified the slight increase in the ceiling by referring...
Jul 17, 2015 09:20 am UTC| Commentary
At her testimony to the Senate and in a speech last Friday, Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen affirmed that a rate hike later this year will be appropriate if the economy develops as expected. She focused on the US economys...
Oversupply of middle distillates weighs on refinery margins
Jul 17, 2015 09:00 am UTC| Commentary
Gasoil stocks in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region climbed further this week, and find themselves at a record 3.245 million tons.This makes any widening of the currently low crack spreads for middle distillates...
Production outage in North Sea leads to rising Brent price
Jul 17, 2015 08:58 am UTC| Commentary
Brent is trading largely unchanged at a good $57 per barrel following the contract rollover. It was particularly the (meanwhile expired) August contract which rose significantly yesterday in response to a production outage...
China's economy is losing momentum?
Jul 17, 2015 07:53 am UTC| Commentary
The stimulus from Chinas monetary policy is having increasingly less of an impact on the real economy on account of high corporate and private debt. The figures recently-published industrial production figures have shown...
Greek banks to open on Monday, capital controls still in place
Jul 17, 2015 07:37 am UTC| Commentary
In terms of other Greek specific news: It is being reported that Prime Minister Tsipras will delay a re-shuffle of his cabinet until after the next set of bailout reforms are passed (expected to be done by July 22)....
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects