The oil complex shrugged off largely bearish US Energy Information Administration data Wednesday as a rise in equities coupled with a technical bounce halted a four-day slide in June crude futures. NYMEX June crude rallied towards the ...
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The recent narrowing in the Brent premium to NYMEX crude, which fell to a 17-month low of $7.48/b on Thursday, is set to continue into the third quarter, with $5/b a possibility, before widening again early next year, Goldman Sachs analysts ...
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Shares pared an early rise as profit-taking emerged before the release of US non-farm payrolls data due overnight. Strong earnings results from Westpac and Macquarie Group, together with a jump in resources stocks initially boosted the ...
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The sharemarket pared an early rise as profit-taking emerged before the release of US non-farm payrolls data due overnight. Strong earnings results from Westpac and Macquarie Group, together with a jump in resources stocks, initially ...
US commercial crude stocks surged 6.696 million barrels over the week ended April 26 to hit a record high level of 395.284 million barrels, data from the Energy Information Administration showed Wednesday. The climb, due largely to a ...
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The ratio of the Gulf Coast normal butane assessment to the front-month NYMEX crude contract is at 57.9% Friday morning, the lowest level since late 2008, Platts data showed, in part due to the deployment summer gasoline specs. The ratio, ...
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NYMEX May crude settled 16 cents lower at $97.07/b on Monday, as the complex came under pressure from a combination of weaker-than-expected US manufacturing data and the closure of ExxonMobil's 96,000 b/d Pegasus crude pipeline on Friday. ...
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Distillate futures closed US trading sharply higher Wednesday, holding onto boosts seen in the wake of an unexpectedly bullish inventory report released in the morning by the Energy Information Administration. NYMEX April heating oil ...
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Oil futures settled lower Monday after extending an overnight slide that saw the front-month NYMEX crude contract trade below $90/barrel for the first time since December 26. NYMEX April crude settled 56 cents lower at $90.12/b, while ICE ...
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US commercial crude stocks failed to fall for the sixth straight reporting week data from the Energy Information Administration showed Wednesday, climbing 1.13 million barrels over the week ended February 22 to 377.518 million barrels, ...
The Australian sharemarket rose to a fresh four-and-a-half year high today as positive domestic earnings reports and further signs of improvement in the global economy encouraged investors to continue moving money from cash and bonds to ...
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The Australian sharemarket was on track for a 10th-consecutive daily rise today, as commodity price strength lifted the resources sector. BHP Billiton rose 1 per cent after the price of London Metals Exchange copper rose 0.6 per cent and ...
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The sharemarket rose for a 10th consecutive day, extending its longest winning streak since October 2003, as an improving global economic outlook continued to fuel demand for equities before the conclusion of a US Federal Reserve board ...
OPEC Secretary General Abdalla el-Badri said Monday that world oil markets were well balanced and likely to remain well supplied through the current year to meet expected growth in demand, but that the oil producer group did not envisage a ...
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The NYMEX February crude contract broke out of a narrow trading band immediately ahead of the 1:15 p.m. EST (1815 GMT) cessation of trading on the NYMEX contract to end the day 9 cents lower at $95.47/b. Prior to 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 ...
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