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OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Indices
September 10th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 10, 2014 S&P 500 Down day for the S&P 500 finding support at the 20 DMA only to close above at 1989.70. The S&P have gained almost 100 points since the beginning of ...
Brent Oil Below $100 as Ample Supplies Weigh
September 10th, 2014
Brent crude oil prices fell below $100 per barrel in volatile trade on Tuesday, a fourth straight daily decline as ample supplies weighed, while U.S. crude rose on the expectation of dwindling fuel stockpiles. Prices were not far above ...
BP ‘grossly negligent’ in 2010 U.S. spill, fines could be $18 billion
September 5th, 2014
A U.S. judge has decided that BP Plc was “grossly negligent” and “reckless” in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill four years ago, a ruling that could add nearly $18 billion in fines to more than $42 billion in ...
Europe Needs A New Source of Oil and Gas, Fast
September 5th, 2014
Summer is over and many Europeans may have to keep warm this coming winter by thinking about their summer holidays while wrapped in blankets, praying for a short winter or for the world to come to its senses. It ...
Brent Oil Drifts Below $102 on U.S. Inventories
September 5th, 2014
Oil fell on Thursday, with a surprise rate cut from the European Central Bank boosting the dollar and hitting commodities priced in the U.S. currency. Losses were limited by a drop in crude oil inventories in the United States, ...
Halliburton Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion To Avoid Future Claims
September 4th, 2014
Halliburton Co. has reached a settlement in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to pay $1.1 billion to resolve most of the claims against it arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in a ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
September 4th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 4, 2014 EUR/USD found support close to the 1.3120 area following the hammer candle of the previous day which suggested a short term bottom and reversal from recent lows. This up-swing is likely ...
A New American Oil Bonanza
August 29th, 2014
The United States now accounts for 10% of the world’s oil production. As it sharply curtails imports from countries like Angola and Nigeria, those producers are then compelled to sell their oil to China and other Asian markets at ...
‘Crop tourists’ predict record corn and soyabean harvests
August 29th, 2014
Every August, travellers with a high tolerance for monotony flock to the two-lane highways of the rural US Midwest. Tracing 1,000-mile routes across corn and soyabean fields, these participants in annual “crop tours” stop to measure ears, count bean ...
Oil Companies Turning Away From The Middle East
August 20th, 2014
The violence and cutthroat politics of the Middle East, combined with declining oil and gas production levels, has triggered a subtle but significant shift away from what has long been the center of the energy industry to other regions ...
