Yep, it’s that time of the year to desperately hunt for what to get Auntie Maude or Uncle Fred for Christmas. But search no longer, my friends. Here is a collection of energy-related gifts I am sure they would be thrilled to receive: » read more
Posts Tagged ‘coal’
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Dec 1 @ 10:58am by Matt Smith in Global Energy, Random, risk management
Energy-related Christmas Gifts
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Nov 18 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas, Random
Burrito bites
Amazingly, the Friday before Thanksgiving creeps up on us with the stealth of a ninja. This week has brought more yadda yadda blah blah blah re Europe, as the domino rally of debt deterioration now reaches Spain (no bulls in sight), and funds flee from their bonds. Meanwhile, the US continues to see placatingly decent economic data (or maybe our expectations have just been beaten down…hmm, there’s a thought). » read more
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Sep 29 @ 10:50am by Matt Smith in Biofuels, Crude Oil, Global Energy, Natural Gas
Relevant versus Random Facts about Power
Once again this week I found myself going off on a tangent as I was researching something else. My meanderings led me to forraging for facts about power, so here are some relevant, riveting, and random electro-info-nuggets™. » read more
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Sep 21 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas
Natural Gas is Eeyore, and Other Observations
Although I’m working on a few other posts, I’ve been distracted this past week by a number of key documents, speeches, and data releases (and of course, the omnipresent preoccupation of linking cartoons to commodities). Hither and thither, here are some observations I have cobbled together.
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Aug 5 @ 10:58am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas, risk management
Burrito bites
Yola! As you may well know, the first Friday of each month is my favorite day of the month, as the release of official US unemployment data brings unrivalled, voracious volatility to financial markets. But this week has been like a week of Nonfarm Fridays, as markets have twisted and turned, and ultimately, tumbled.
Monday’s debt ceiling resolution has been completely overshadowed by a bludgeoning bout of bad economic data, while today’s marginally upbeat employment data have been seemingly unable to resuscitate risk appetite. Crude has been down double digits in dollars this week, while natural gas has fallen back into three-dollardom. The move on natty is less to do with the economic panic, and more to do with another decent weekly injection into storage, moderating temperatures / tropical activity, while crude’s move is saying the end of the world recovery is nigh. Anyway, after this week’s acerbic swings, it is time to sit back and chill, with these not-so-bitter pills: » read more
