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One Third Of Energy Companies Could Go Bankrupt Deloitte Warns As Credit Risk Hits Record High
One Third Of Energy Companies Could Go Bankrupt Deloitte Warns As Credit Risk Hits Record High At 1600bps, the extra yield investors are demanding to take on US energy credit risk has never been higher. However, if a new report from Deloitte proves true, this is far from enough as they forecast roughly a third of oil producers […]
Horror Stories Emerge After A Cursory Look At Chinese Corporate Leverage
Horror Stories Emerge After A Cursory Look At Chinese Corporate Leverage By now it is common knowledge that China has a major debt problem at the macro level, one which may be even bigger than expected because according to at least one analysis by Rabobank, China’s most recent debt has soared from the infamous McKinsey level of […]
More Oil and Gas Bankruptcies Are Assured
More Oil and Gas Bankruptcies Are Assured 2015 was a terrible year for energy investors, but many investors and even corporate officers may be deluding themselves in believing that if they simply hold on, the good times will return. The reality is that for many oil companies, the future is already written. In the last […]
The Empire Has No Clothes
The Empire Has No Clothes Hans Christian Andersen told the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” as part of his Fairy Tales Told for Children collection. The tale is almost two hundred years old. Most know how a little boy was the first to announce that the emperor had no clothes. Andersen’s tale is being re-written today […]
The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared
The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared Last time around it was subprime mortgages, but this time it is oil that is playing a starring role in a global financial crisis. Since the start of 2015, 42 North American oil companies have filed for bankruptcy, 130,000 good paying energy jobs have been lost in the […]
The Shale Defaults Begin Here: Banks Quietly Shrink These 25 Companies’ Credit Facilities
The Shale Defaults Begin Here: Banks Quietly Shrink These 25 Companies’ Credit Facilities Everyone knows that at $35/barrel oil, virtually every US shale company is cash flow negative and is therefore burning through cash and other forms of liquidity such as bank revolvers and term loans, just as everyone knows that should oil remain at […]
Even Bankruptcy Can’t Slow US Oil Production Much, it Seems
Even Bankruptcy Can’t Slow US Oil Production Much, it Seems The resilience has extended the timeline in this oil bust. Is it over yet? 2015 will certainly go down as the worst year for energy stocks since 2008 – that is unless 2016 beats it for misery. Looking at certain sub-sectors, like off-shore drilling, 2016 […]
Doom and Gloom for North American Oil Producers
Doom and Gloom for North American Oil Producers Lower Oil Prices To the dismay of U.S. shale producers, oil prices continue their long slow slide into the abyss. Perhaps the current price of $35 per barrel – an 11 year low – is the final destination. More than likely, however, it’s a brief reprieve before […]
Puerto Rico’s Debt Trap
Puerto Rico’s Debt Trap WASHINGTON, DC – The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico – the largest United States “territory” – is broke, and a human calamity is unfolding there. Unless a constructive course of political action is found in 2016, Puerto Rican migration to the 50 states will rival the scale of the 1930s Dust […]
Bank Counterparty Risk Surges To 4-Year High
Bank Counterparty Risk Surges To 4-Year High The TED Spread is the difference between the interest rates on interbank loans and on short-term U.S. government debt and as such offers a proxy for how banks themselves perceive the relative creditworthiness of the financial system. The last time TED spread was surging to this level was late […]
Renewable Energy Bankruptcy Threatens Spanish Banks
Renewable Energy Bankruptcy Threatens Spanish Banks In another sign of the turbulent times for the renewable energy sector, Spain’s Abengoa has declared bankruptcy. The bankruptcy is notable for several reasons. First, it suggests how difficult the transition from conventional energy firms to solvent and stable renewable energy companies will be. Second, it shows how connected the […]
Here’s What Happens When Central Banks Go Broke
Here’s What Happens When Central Banks Go Broke On Friday, in “Is Mario Draghi About To Go Full-Kuroda? RBS Says ECB Could Buy Stocks,” we took a closer look at what the ECB’s options are when it comes to implementing further easing measures come December. As a reminder, Mario Draghi telegraphed either another depo rate […]
Will Illinois Be the First State to Go Bankrupt?
Will Illinois Be the First State to Go Bankrupt? The state of Illinois is in real trouble. The state employees have been bleeding the state dry and are demanding that they raise taxes so they can get theirs. This is the poster state for government employees expropriating private assets. Illinois must pay $560 million in […]
Is The Oil And Gas Fire Sale About To Start?
Is The Oil And Gas Fire Sale About To Start? Much has been written about the mounting pile of debt for U.S. oil companies (not to mention the well-known Brazilian oil giant). Not that long ago, many oil and gas companies secured at least a part of their revenue by hedging contracts. Bloomberg already reported in June that many of […]
Australia’s Mega LNG Projects are in Serious Trouble
Australia’s Mega LNG Projects are in Serious Trouble In the US, natural gas is dirt cheap. The price peaked in 2008 and has since collapsed. It remains below the cost of production, even today. Two natural gas drillers have recently buckled and declared bankruptcy. In the international markets, natural gas is traded as Liquefied Natural Gas […]
