U.S. stocks end higher as Dow reverses earlier losses
Stocks ended higher on Monday after the Dow Jones Industrial...
Stocks ended higher on Monday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed its earlier losses, as Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender said that the Trump administration is "close to the finish line on a couple" of trade deals, though trade tensions between the U.S. and China flared.
"This morning’s news of trade deals being near the finish line is supporting a bullish reversal in equities after mounting U.S.-China tensions drove early volatility," José Torres, senior economist at Interactive Brokers, wrote in a Monday note.
"Maintaining an adversarial posture against Beijing is tolerable for markets and the economy as long as there are agreements with most other cross-border commerce partners," he added.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 35.41 points, or 0.1%, to end at 42,305.48, for its third straight daily gain, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
The S&P 500 rose 24.25 points, or 0.4%, to close at 5,935.94.
The Nasdaq Composite increased 128.85 points, or 0.7%, to finish at 19,242.61.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, came out on Monday with another warning about the bond market that some observers said could prompt more investors to look around the world and at other asset classes for protection.
In an interview with the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” show, Dimon said the worsening fiscal situation in the U.S. is a “big deal” and “a real problem,” and that “the bond markets are going to have a tough time” at some point, although he doesn’t know if it will be in “six months or six years.” He added that the U.S. needs to take steps aimed at growth and pro-business measures.
His comments came as U.S. government debt sold off in New York trading amid a continued focus on a growing federal deficit that could widen even further under the Trump administration’s tax-cut agenda.
(Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a fifth week to the lowest since November 2021, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday.
It was the first time since September 2023 that the number of rigs declined for five straight weeks.
The combined oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, fell by three to 563 in the week to May 30th. This week's decline decreased the total count by 37 rigs, or 6%, from this time last year.
Baker Hughes said oil rigs fell by four to 461 this week, their lowest since November 2021. Gas rigs rose by one to 99.
In the Permian Basin in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, the nation's biggest oil-producing shale formation, drillers cut one rig, bringing the total down to 278, the lowest since November 2021. Oklahoma dropped one rig, now at 52 rigs running.
Powder River E&Ps Target New Zones as Oil Prices Threaten Growth
Analysts say that new investment in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin could...
Analysts say that new investment in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin could suffer under a lower oil price environment.
The Powder’s deep stacked pay potential is still relatively untapped and major oil producers, including Occidental Petroleum and Devon Energy, are looking to the emerging horizontal play for future output growth.
But the outlook for oil producers is unclear because wells drilled in the Powder’s Niobrara Shale—the basin’s top drilling target—and Mowry Shale still break even around $60/bbl, according to Ryan Hill, principal analyst at Enverus Intelligence Research.
“And oil is $60/bbl right now,” Hill said in an interview with Hart Energy. “Nobody really invests in a breakeven project.”
Hill said drilling longer 3—and 4-mile laterals in the Bakken has been shown to reduce breakeven costs by up to $10/bbl.
“When you’re talking about $60 to $50, that’s a whole different ballgame,” he said. “It is very hard to find $50/bbl breakeven inventory these days.”
EOG to Buy Utica Shale Oil Producer Encino for $5.6B
EOG Resources will buy Encino Acquisition Partners from Canada Pension...
EOG Resources will buy Encino Acquisition Partners from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) and Encino Energy, a top producer in Ohio Utica Shale, for $5.6 billion.
EOG said the transaction, which will be purchased with $3.5 billion in debt and $2.1 billion cash, will create a leading producer in the Utica.
"This acquisition combines large, premier acreage positions in the Utica, creating a third foundational play for EOG alongside our Delaware Basin and Eagle Ford assets," said EOG chairman and CEO Ezra Y. Yacob during a May 30 conference call with investors.
"Encino's acreage improves the quality and depth of our Utica position, expanding EOG's multi-basin portfolio to more than 12 billion barrels of oil equivalent net resource,” he said.
The acquisition adds 675,000 net core acres to EOG's Utica position for a combined 1.1 million net acres, representing more than 2 Bboe of undeveloped net resource. Pro forma production is estimated at 275,000 boe/d.
