Remarkable resilience of shale producers
Mar 17, 2015 10:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
US crude price drop is expected to hit the high cost producers the most namely shale oil producers and Canadian tar sands producers. Before the price drop, average cost of production shale oil was close to $80/ barrel...
Game to gain oil market share is still on
Mar 17, 2015 09:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
Last week, oil tanker Maran Penelope arrived at South Korea carrying 140,000 tons of Mexican crude oil. Buyer was refiner GS Caltex Corp. This year so far Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos delivered 5...
Mar 17, 2015 09:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
Today Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) published the minutes of meeting at 00:30 GMT. Key highlights - RBA recognized slowdown in China, but on a positive note said that with lower steel price, Chinese domestic...
Mar 17, 2015 08:18 am UTC| Insights & Views
Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept the monetary policy unchanged at todays announcement. BOJ is purchasing assets as per its qualitative and quantitative easing (QQE) at a pace of 80 trillion yen per year. Todays policy decision...
Guide to today’s important data and events
Mar 17, 2015 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views
Today data risks are moderate across board. Focus is on Euro zone. Data released so far - Australia - RBA released minutes of meeting that indicates continuation of the easing cycle. China - FDI increased at a...
Mar 16, 2015 18:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Big selloffs continuing in energy segment after last weeks big fall. Weekly performance at a glance in chart table - Oil (WTI) - WTI selloffs accelerated and price moved very close to target. WTI is yet to reach...
Mar 16, 2015 18:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Its once again like 2011 crisis as Investors show concern over Greece, sending the countrys short term bond yields once again above 20%. The three-year Greek bond yields, that fell by almost 12% after a bailout...
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