Jim Colburn

From the EIA’s This Week in Petroleum, here are gasoline and distillate stocks compared to 5 year averages: Distillates are winning the race to

Christopher M. Matthews and Bradley Olson of the WSJ wrote an excellent piece on why frackers are struggling to make money despite higher oil

From the EIA’s always excellent, This Week In Petroleum... Which is more eye-popping, crude oil exports (at 2.566 mbd for the week)... or the

The IEA reported today that oil stocks have dropped to a three year low...  The Wall Street Journal reproduced this chart showing inventories compared

The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNowcast for 2Q is at +4.1%: While prone to significant revisions the Nowcast gives us a sense of how an economic data

Retail sales held up well in April, despite higher gasoline prices... Here is Sharon Nunn at the WSJ: ”Retail sales—a measure of spending at

The table is from OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report, here...  But, Venezuela’s oil production continues to deteriorate...