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This Is Canada’s Depression: Surging Crime, Soaring Suicides, Overwhelmed Food Banks “And The Worst Is Yet To Come”
This Is Canada’s Depression: Surging Crime, Soaring Suicides, Overwhelmed Food Banks “And The Worst Is Yet To Come” Back in March, we brought you “Drugs, Prostitution, Violence Plague Oil Boom Towns Gone Bust,” in which we detailed the plight of towns like Sidney and Bainville, Montana, where the slump in oil revenue has made it […]
Saudi Arabia Continues to Ramp Up Oil Output in Face of Market Glut
Saudi Arabia Continues to Ramp Up Oil Output in Face of Market Glut Saudi Arabia increased its exports of oil during October, shipping out more crude than it had in the previous four months, aggravating a supply glut that has severely depressed oil prices and revenues to oil producers. But the desert kingdom reportedly is […]
Just About Every Part of the Permian Basin is Unprofitable at $30 Per Barrel
Just About Every Part of the Permian Basin is Unprofitable at $30 Per Barrel Less than 2 percent of Permian basin tight oil wells are commercial at $30 per barrel oil prices. Sorry about that. I know that many believe that U.S. shale and tight oil plays are commercial even at current low oil prices […]
The zombie apocalypse in oil: Why it’s a bad sign for all of us
The zombie apocalypse in oil: Why it’s a bad sign for all of us The dramatic drop in oil prices has created what are called “zombie” companies, oil companies which can still afford to pay interest on huge debts, but little else. If oil prices stay low, the problem is likely to spread and become an […]
Oil Prices and Global Growth
Oil Prices and Global Growth CAMBRIDGE – One of the biggest economic surprises of 2015 is that the stunning drop in global oil prices did not deliver a bigger boost to global growth. Despite the collapse in prices, from over $115 per barrel in June 2014 to $45 at the end of November 2015, most […]
The Next Domino: CANADA
The Next Domino: CANADA The Federal Reserve has kept its zero interest rate policy (‘ZIRP’) for several years (and much longer than originally anticipated) whilst the European Central Bank seems to be getting serious about doing ‘better’ and has now reduced the deposit rate at the ECB to -0.30%. It’s already remarkable a central bank doesn’t seem […]
Oil Producer’s Currencies Are Collapsing As Brent Breaks Below $40
Oil Producer’s Currencies Are Collapsing As Brent Breaks Below $40 Not helped by weakness in China trade data, questions over global growth and inflation expectations are growing. Oil-exporting nations (and growth-linked currencies) are getting monkey-hammered… Just when traders thought the bottom was in… As Reuters notes, with lower oil prices likely to add to global deflationary […]
Bakken(ND) Light Tight Oil – Update with Sep – 15 NDIC Data
Bakken(ND) Light Tight Oil – Update with Sep – 15 NDIC Data After years of following developments in extraction of light tight oil (LTO) in the Bakken, the oil price, studying actual well production data from the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC) and the SEC 10-Q/Ks filings for several companies heavily exposed to the Bakken, a […]
Looney Plunges As Canadian GDP Collapses Most Since 2009
Looney Plunges As Canadian GDP Collapses Most Since 2009 Who could have seen that coming? It appears, for America’s northern brethren, low oil proces are unequivocally terrible. Against expectations of a flat 0.0% unchanged September, Canadian GDP plunged 0.5% – its largest MoM drop since March 2009 and the biggest miss since Dec 2008. With Canada’s housing […]
Oil Prices Down As Storage Keeps On Filling Up
Oil Prices Down As Storage Keeps On Filling Up Happy Thanksgiving Eve! One hundred and forty-eight years to the day after Alfred Nobel patented dynamite, and the fuse has been lit for an explosion to the downside for the crude complex. After geopolitical tension was stoked yesterday, attention shifts back to oversupply today with the […]
Shale Gas Rig Count Could Implode Here If Prices Don’t Rebound
Shale Gas Rig Count Could Implode Here If Prices Don’t Rebound The Haynesville Shale play needs $6.50 gas prices to break even. With natural gas prices just above $2/Mcf (thousand cubic feet), we question the shale gas business model that has 31 rigs drilling wells in that play that cost $8-10 million each to sell gas at […]
Oil May Plunge to $20, Signalling Economic Disaster: “The Numbers Are Dreadful And Unprecedented”
Oil May Plunge to $20, Signalling Economic Disaster: “The Numbers Are Dreadful And Unprecedented” The price of oil has long been a key indicator of economic health and stability. And that index is tanking fast. In the last few years, dramatic overproduction of oil has become a major tool of geopolitical conflict. As prices have plummeted from […]
The $4.6 Trillion Leveraged Loan Market—–Next Crisis In The Making
The $4.6 Trillion Leveraged Loan Market—–Next Crisis In The Making Financial crises take about a decade to be born. Having lived through four of them, I see the raw materials for a fifth one — flowing from the collapse of so-called leveraged loans — debt piled on top of companies with weak credit ratings. Before examining […]
Oil Prices Testing August Lows As Inventories Swell
Oil Prices Testing August Lows As Inventories Swell As Mike D from the Beastie Boys turns fifty today, WTI is trying to fight for its right to party on in forty-dollardom. (but failing). Brent is being more successful in trying to ‘get it together’, holding somewhat steady, but the ongoing swelling-inventory, tanker traffic-jammed nature of […]



