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U.S. shale oil companies are using the post- OPEC rally to hedge their oil price risk for next year and 2018 above $50 a barrel, bankers, merchants and brokers said, pushing the forward oil curve upside down.
The rush to hedge — locking in future cash flows and sales prices — could translate into higher U.S. oil production next year, …
German factory orders surged in October, suggesting growth in Europe’s largest economy will accelerate at the end of the year.
Orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, jumped 4.9 percent from September, when they fell a revised 0.3 percent, data from the Economy Ministry in Berlin showed on Tuesday. The increase was the biggest since July 2014, and compared …
The past few years have been difficult for the global diamond industry.
After a rapid recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, prices have been sliding since 2011. An index of rough diamonds by Polished Prices, a market data company, last month reached its lowest level since 2010.
Volumes haven’t done much to compensate, with supply holding about steady for five …
Mercedes-Benz is planning its own distinct line of electric vehicles, challenging BMW and Tesla Motors Inc. in a bet that alternative-fuel cars have the potential to become profitable.
Mercedes will add two electric sport utility vehicles and two sedans, according to two people familiar with the plan, who asked not to be named because the details haven’t been disclosed. Mercedes …
Never mind the rising defaults, the struggling energy industry and the battered mutual funds. Junk bonds are poised to gain after their first annual loss in six years, according to credit analysts at some of Wall Street’s biggest banks.
With a late-2015 panic pushing average yields to about 9 percent, the market can absorb an increase in corporate failures while …
The worst fears of OPEC and Asian gas exporters are about to come true.
U.S. shale drillers who pushed domestic crude production to a 45-year high and unlocked record amounts of natural gas are letting those supplies loose into global markets they were absent from for decades.
The tanker of shale oil that shoved off from a Texas port on …
Millions of Americans have gone back to work since the last recession.
Now they’re finally getting some decent pay raises.
Average hourly earnings of workers climbed 2.8 percent in October from a year earlier, the fastest pace in seven years, Labor Department figures showed Friday in Washington.
Rising wages are encouraging people to look for greener pastures: Among the …
2015, the year of the secular bottoming in interest rates and bond yields
2015 was the year of the turn in US interest rates and the beginning of the normalization process after 8 years of ‘abnormal’ monetary policies characterized by zero-interest rates and three consecutive rounds of quantitative easing.
Conversely, the European Central Bank finally resolved to quantitate easing and …
Equity investors will remember 2015 as a difficult and disappointing year.
2015 will also be remembered as an extremely volatile year.
The first half of the year was extremely positive with a massive rally in Chinese equities and spectacular performances of the European bourses, but as early as May we warned investors about the coming correction in western markets, particularly …
When interest rates are high, people borrow less and save more. When they’re low, savings go down and borrowing goes up. But what happens when rates stay negative?
In Denmark, where rates have been below zero longer than anywhere else on the planet, the private sector is saving more than it did when rates were positive (before 2012). Private investment …
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