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Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, a rancher’s daughter who wielded great power over American law from her seat at the center of the court’s ideological spectrum, died on Friday in Phoenix. She was 93.
The Supreme Court announced her death in a statement, saying the cause was complications of dementia. She grew up in Arizona and lived there most of her life.
The energy sector is off to a broadly lower start, pressured by mild weakness in the underlying commodities and the major equity futures. U.S. stock index futures were largely subdued as investors were on edge in the run up to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's comments which are expected to hold clues on the interest rate path.
WTI and Brent crude oil futures steadied with the market seemingly unconvinced that the latest round of production cuts by the OPEC+ coalition will be able to lift prices out of their recent slump. Yesterday OPEC+ producers agreed to remove around 2.2 million bpd of oil from the global market in the first quarter of next year, which included a rolling over of Saudi Arabia and Russia's current 1.3 million bpd of voluntary cuts. The market received the news with skepticism and confusion, driven by concerns about compliance given the voluntary nature of the reductions, as well as investors' prior expectations of deeper cuts.
Natural gas futures are down in early trading as the NOAA's 6-10 day outlook shows above-normal temps over most of the US from OH, TN and the Lower MS Valleys westward to the Pacific Coast, especially across the northern and central Great Plains.
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