S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq book 4th straight day of gains with tech shares in focus
U.S. stocks ended Wednesday near session highs, building on recent gains for equities as investors look...
U.S. stocks ended Wednesday near session highs, building on recent gains for equities as investors look to a big slate of earnings on deck from the communications and technology sectors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.63% rose 224.09 points, or 0.6%, ending at 35,629.33.
The S&P 500 indexSPX, +0.94% gained 0.9%, or 42.84 points, to finish at 4,589.38, buoyed by gains in the communication services sector SP500.50, +3.09%XLC, +2.00%, which rose 3.1%, powered by Google parent Alphabet Inc.
The Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMP, 0.50% finished up 0.5% at 14,417.55, after touching an intraday high at 14,504.82.
Permian Basin oil and gas deals getting bigger as market recovers from COVID-19
Three recent acquisitions of oil- and gas-producing assets in the Permian Basin moved...
Three recent acquisitions of oil- and gas-producing assets in the Permian Basin moved more than $1 billion in the last week, as the market for fossil fuels in the U.S. grows along with production in the basin – one of the nation’s most active.
Domestic oil was trading at about $88 per barrel, up from about $85 a barrel a week ago, per data from Nasdaq.
The increased value in oil was followed by growth in oil and gas rigs with the Permian Basin adding one rig in the past week for a nation-leading total of 293 rigs – an increase of 101 from a year ago, as of Friday per the latest data from Baker Hughes.
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New Mexico and Texas, which share the Permian, had 94 and 294 rigs, respectively – holding the top two rig counts in the nation, Baker Hughes reported.
Oil prices hitting $100 a barrel could bring an end to the Great Resignation
In an oil market bound by extremely tight demand and an unstable situation in Ukraine, analysts say these...
In an oil market bound by extremely tight demand and an unstable situation in Ukraine, analysts say these supply increases may not be able to stop oil prices from reaching the financially and psychologically daunting price of $100/barrel—or to stop a host of other second-order economic effects, including an end to the young work revolt behind the Great Resignation.
For the TikTok generation of 16-to-24-year-olds in the U.S.—a group that has been reluctant to re-enter the labor force—“gasoline is a disproportionate amount of spending for this group. Higher oil prices may encourage a return to the conventional jobs market.”
A surge in U.S. oil output in the fourth quarter of 2021 has gone largely unnoticed by the oil...
A surge in U.S. oil output in the fourth quarter of 2021 has gone largely unnoticed by the oil market and oil analysts, according to Standard Chartered.
In a new research note sent to Rigzone, analysts at the company highlighted that, in October 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasted that U.S. oil liquids supply - excluding refinery processing gains - would be 17.86 million barrels per day in November. The analysts outlined that they estimated that U.S. oil supply averaged 18.795 million barrels per day in November, which they noted was a month on month increase of 352,000 barrels per day, 935,000 barrels per day higher than the EIA forecast and just 375,000 barrels per day below January 2020’s all-time high.
WTI and Brent crude oil futures are higher in early trading, gaining amid OPEC+’s...
WTI and Brent crude oil futures are higher in early trading, gaining amid OPEC+’s decision to stick to its planned output increase despite pressure to increase supply and lingering geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Ahead of the official EIA data later today, investors also digested last night’s API report which showed U.S. crude stocks fell by 1.6 million barrels last week, against analysts' estimate of an increase of 1.5 million barrels. OPEC+ agreed to raise its oil output by 400,000 barrels per day in March, despite pressure from top consumers to speed up production increases after crude prices hit seven-year highs. OPEC+ blamed surging prices on the failure of consuming nations to ensure adequate investment in fossil fuels as they shift to greener energy.
Brent crude was up $1.16 cents, at $90.32 a barrel by 1303 GMT.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.28 to $89.48 a barrel.
