Oil Traders Pump a Record $500 Million Into One Fund as Prices Plunge
WisdomTree’s Brent Crude Oil ETP — ticker BRNT — attracted a weekly record of about $500 million,...
WisdomTree’s Brent Crude Oil ETP — ticker BRNT — attracted a weekly record of about $500 million, almost tripling the fund’s assets to more than $700 million. The WisdomTree fund’s inflow is one of the largest for any oil-tracking ETP this year.
The move coincided with benchmark Brent futures sliding 11% in their biggest weekly slump since early August. Worries that rising interest rates will quell demand and an oversupplied physical market have pressured prices lately.
In another sign of dip buying,the market’s largest product, the $2.4 billion US Oil Fund— or USO — saw a daily inflow of $169 million last week. That was the most since August 2020.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced Monday it had a new source...
Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced Monday it had a new source of funding for its operations.
The company said the new senior secured reserve-based revolving credit facility replaced its previous credit facility. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Chesapeake would be able to obtain an initial borrowing base of $3.5 billion.
Chesapeake explained it obtained the new revolving credit facility as a result of “a more favorable interest rate grid as well as loosened financial and administrative covenants and administrative burdens.”
Markets: The captain has turned on the seatbelt sign, because the stock market is going...
Markets: The captain has turned on the seatbelt sign, because the stock market is going to get real bumpy this week. Not only will the Fed announce another rate hike on Wednesday, but tomorrow the consumer price index (CPI) report will provide the latest snapshot on inflation. And on days when the CPI drops, the market is more mercurial than a toddler: On the Sept. 13 release, the S&P plunged 4.3%, but on the Nov. 10 report, it surged 5.5%.
The energy sector is off to a higher start supported by strength in the...
The energy sector is off to a higher start supported by strength in the underlying commodities and U.S. equity futures. The major averages are expected to start Monday’s session slightly higher as investors brace themselves for the U.S. CPI data which will be released on Tuesday, followed by the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting, with the consensus expecting another 50-basis point rate hike to be announced Wednesday at 2 PM ET.
WTI and Brent crude oil are trading near the flatline, but in positive territory, following last week’s sell-off as supply concerns outweigh fears of a looming global recession. Oil futures are gaining support from the closure of the Keystone pipeline and the threat of Russian production cuts. Yesterday, Canada’s TC Energy said it had not yet determined the cause of the oil pipeline leak and gave no indication to when the pipeline would resume operation. Traffic at Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait fell Monday as the number of tankers waiting to pass decreased.
Natural gas futures surged this morning on forecasts for below-normal temperatures across most of the U.S. The upper Midwest, North and Central High Plains are expected to see the coldest temperatures.
U.S. expected to announce major nuclear fusion energy breakthrough
The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this...
The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) had achieved a "net energy gain" from an experimental fusion reactor.
That would represent the first time that researchers have successfully produced more energy in a fusion reaction - the same type that powers the Sun - than was consumed during the process, a potentially major step in the pursuit of zero-carbon power.
