Archives for January 2018

The Employment Cost Index was released this morning and was up 0.6 for the quarter and up 2.6 y/y: Here is the

Here is Justin Jacobs at the Petroleum Economist: ”Venezuela's crude exports to the US are having their worst month in 30 years as the country's

Record bullish bets by hedge funds, from Bloomberg:  

Vipal Monga and David George-Cosh of the Wall Street Journal do a nice job explaining regional differences in pricing of two different crude streams,

John Kemp, Reuters, has an excellent chart book illustrating the tightening of crude oil stocks... Here is one showing Brent and WTI, month one minus

US oil production, from CarpeDiem  : More production data can be found at the EIA’s site, here:

Sarah McFarlane and Nathaniel Taplin have a nice piece in today’s Wall Street Journal on China’s move out of coal into natural gas: ”China’s smog

John Kemp at Reuters has a chart book using data from the CFTC’s Committment of Traders Report and ICE, none more telling than this one: Here

It doesn't happen often, but economies of 45 countries tracked by the OECD are growing: "From 2012 to 2016 the global economy grew only