Jim Colburn

Here is the weekly look at crude oil, gasoline and distillate stocks compared to 5 year highs and lows:

Here is recent history from the EIA’s This Week in Petroleum: “The WTI price spread with Brent reflects the transportation costs associated

Lucia Kassai, Bloomberg, reminds us that Venezuela’s oil industry is in decline: “The number of active oil rigs in Venezuela is heading for a

Implied volatility for December WTI crude oil options (currently the front month) jumped from 21% on Friday to 27.9% on Monday.... The most active

The article from FT Alphaville is about China’s growth relative to world growth, but here is one takeaway: ” And we do see world petroleum

The excellent John Kemp summarizes hedge funds’ positions in energy markets here: ”Hedge funds and other money managers had amassed a net bullish

The Saudi-Iran Cold War intensifies... Here is the Wall Street Journal: ”The latest salvo in the Iran-Saudi struggle came Saturday, when Lebanese

Note the “Core PCE” measure, which is the “data dependent” Fed’s go to number is expected to be well under target for the current quarter: Here