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CIA World FactbookThe stock market may have tanked on Wednesday, but geopolitical risk from Yemen was one of the excuses that was used for the rally in oil on this day. It may simply have been an...
U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 8.17 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory of 466.7 million barrels.
Common sense would say that short sellers have made huge bets and boatloads of money as the stocks and commodities around the oil patch have suffered.
Famed activist investor Carl Icahn increased his stake in Chesapeake Energy to 11% after the company announced more cuts to its 2015 capital spending budget.
Due to falling energy prices, one of the hoped-for trends in the sector has been mergers and acquisitions. The hope had been that Whiting Petroleum would be the first serious buyout.
In the months after everyone jumped ship on the energy sector due to falling oil prices, independent research firm Argus thinks it might be time to get back on board.
Now crude prices have dropped below $45 and gas will follow them down rapidly. As a matter of fact, in some cities, gas prices are only pennies away from dropping below $2.
The of Nordic American Tankers suggested in an open letter to shareholders that the company's dividend is likely to rise.
Willbros Group shares plunged after it announced that will be filing its 2014 annual report late.
Oil prices have begun to collapse again. The increase in $20 a barrel forecasts will return soon, if they have not already.
Argentina has had its share of financial issues, but now we have seen a serious sentiment change for Argentina out of the team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Civeo reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings Thursday after the U.S. markets closed.
Oppenheimer lowered its earnings estimates and price targets on Baker Hughes, Halliburton and Schlumberger based on its U.S. rig count analysis.
24/7 Wall St. has evaluated the key short interest data on big oil for the settlement date of February 27, 2015.
Whiting Petroleum shares have taken a huge jump in Monday's trading session on reported rumors that it is shopping for a buyout.