Jan 12 2012 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Natural Gas, risk management
Recently I’ve been sounding like a broken record as I keep referencing how natural gas prices are re-enacting a certain scene from Star Wars.
It’s the one where the Millennium Falcon is being inextricably pulled towards the Death Star by a tractor beam…except in naturalgasworld™, natty is the Millennium Falcon and the Death Star is below the $3 mark. With me so far? Good, good. The analogies, however, do not end there. There is a number of themes which flow through natural gas like the force…and here are but a few. » read more
Nov 17 2011 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Global Energy, Natural Gas
It’s not that I am the hugest fan of Northern Irish band Snow Patrol (although songs such as ‘How To Be Dead’, ‘Run’ and ‘You’re All I Have‘ are terrific), but it was the release of their new album ‘Fallen Empires’ this week with the single ‘This Isn’t Everything You Are’ which has set me off on one almighty tangent…
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Tags: Brent WTI spread, Cushing, Enbridge, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Keystone XL, Libya, LNG, LNG exports, Seaway pipeline, the NATGAS Act, wti
Oct 28 2011 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Capital Markets, Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas
Happy Halloween weekend, as we make it to the end of another week. General markets have surprisingly been shy of both scares and bears, as the cup of positive sentiment overfloweth after European leaders managed to defer their problems carve out a last minute agreement to halve the value of Greek debt and inflate the Euro bailout fund to €1 trillion (whoop! whoop! let’s party!). The crude complex has rallied like a banshee on hope, hope, and hope², while natural gas has seen a stronger December contract roll onto the board and run higher as the first bout of winter (hark, snow for NY) hits the US. Enjoy the weekend, enjoy the frights; but for now..burrito bites: » read more
Oct 19 2011 @ 11:18pm by Matt Smith in Crude Oil, Economy, Global Energy, Natural Gas
This is an early and abridged set of burrito bites, but I figured that I had unearthed just enough interesting tidbits to justify pushing ‘em out to you glorious folk. Enjoy! » read more
Sep 23 2011 @ 10:55am by Matt Smith in Capital Markets, Crude Oil, Global Energy, Natural Gas, UK natural gas
Happy Friday once again! Markets are staggering towards the end of the week, one which yielded a prompt month low for US natural gas ($3.66), and a sell-off in crude oil of epic proportions. Fear of a global downturn has been contained in recent weeks, but was toppled over like a gunpowder keg and the fuse unintentionally lit by the Federal Reserve, as their steps to calm markets and spur growth fell woefully short of expectations. Next week presents further fun and games with the return of Greek debt problems to the limelight, along with the risk of downbeat news out of the engine-room of the world, China. But for now, let’s chow: » read more
Recently I’ve been sounding like a broken record as I keep referencing how natural gas prices are re-enacting a certain scene from Star Wars.
