crude oil

Inflation is the topic du jour. And for good reason. Inflation in the United States is at the highest level in 40 years, running at a staggering annualised rate of...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

This chart really helps put things into perspective, and in many respects it's perhaps one of the most important macro/market developments this year (decade?) And, uh...

Over the last few weeks, investors have been fixated on rising yields in fixed income markets. The benchmark US 10-year Treasury Note yield rose from 1.08% to 1.40%...

A negative price for US crude oil provided much fascination this week. The May West Texas Intermediate oil contract closed at -$37.63 per barrel on Monday. But the...

These are extraordinary times and they have elicited extraordinary measures from government and central banking authorities the world over, as COVID-19 has infiltrated...

You will probably have seen in the news yesterday morning (21st April 2020), that U.S. oil futures prices were negative. This is based off the May WTI Crude futures...

Investing is all about making educated assumptions - below is a couple of important assumptions with regard to our strategy for investing moving forward: 1 – March’s...

“That which cannot go on forever, won’t” - Herbert Stein, American economist, 1916-1999Volatility in equity markets has eased modestly over the past week or so as US...

This week it's the US Dollar Index. Unless you've been living under a rock (or maybe that saying should be updated - unless you've been living out of range of wifi),...

This week it's US crude oil flows. Specifically, what we've got here is an interesting juxtaposition of crude oil imports and crude oil production for America. The...

This week the "Chart of the Week" looks at the energy sector of the S&P500 and specifically how it fits in in terms of market capitalization weight and share of total...

Last year I formed the view that there were opportunities in oil stocks. A handful of oil producers lagged the oil price as equity investors doubted the sustainability...

We recently visited the key US oil regions to speak with domestic and international oil producers, and oil field service providers. The aim being to gauge the growth...

The September 2017 quarterly report spelled out a renewed bullish message from the International Fund team: the oil price is headed higher. The Australian Fund has not...

The Brent price originally generated a technical sell signal at US$53.06 on 8/3/17. This was identified as the (negative) technical turning point. The decline last...