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Oil prices fell half a percent Thursday, extending weekly losses amid uncertainty that the eurozone will be able to effectively sanction Russian energy exports.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were up 0.3% at $96.32/bbl, Brent was up marginally at $100.60/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was off 0.7% at $6.32/MMBtu.
Global oil supply disruption from Russia’s invasion could reach 5 million bpd, on top of the 2.2 million bpd of pandemic output curbs that OPEC+ has yet to return to the market.
Household electricity bills in the U.S. rose by $5 per month to average $122 in 2021:
The ramp-up of oil production in Canada’s Alberta province is being held back by a lack of skilled workers.
Canada’s federal government approved this week a $12 billion Equinor-backed plan to build a floating offshore oil project in the Atlantic’s Flemish Pass near the coast of Newfoundland.
More oil news related to the war in Europe:
The EU agreed by a narrow margin last evening to ban Russian coal imports, a move projected to cost Russia $4.4 billion per year in lost revenue. The EU’s top diplomat said Thursday that discussions over an oil embargo will follow despite pushback from Germany, among other nations.
Russia said its oil production may decline up to 5% in April, the steepest drop since the beginning of the pandemic. Unable to sell their products and running out of storage space, some Russian refineries face imminent shutdowns.
Cargoes of Russian Sokol crude from the Far East have sold out for next month on high demand from buyers in Asia amidst steep price discounting.
European energy officials met with top American industry executives in Texas yesterday to discuss boosting U.S. LNG shipments.
Finland and Estonia are the latest European nations planning to cut Russian gas deliveries by jointly investing in a floating LNG terminal.
Plans for a massive underwater gas pipeline from the Eastern Mediterranean to Europe could take more than a decade to build, providing little hoped-for relief for energy-starved Europe.
It may now be impossible for Europe to reach its pandemic-era goal of replenishing gas stocks by 80% this year to ward off winter energy shortages.
With 85% of the state in drought, Texas is facing its driest conditions in more than a decade, threatening more wildfires and damage to livestock, crops and the state’s power grid. Water conservation efforts in California, meanwhile, have largely underwhelmed.
A Boeing 757 cargo jet operated by DHL broke in two after skidding off the runway in Costa Rica yesterday after the crew reported hydraulic problems that forced an emergency landing.
The volume of goods moving through the port of Shanghai has recently fallen by 40%, analysts say, as the city’s extended lockdowns continue to batter automakers, chip builders and other key industrial suppliers.
By 2030, the number of delivery vehicles in the world’s 100 largest cities will balloon by more than one-third from 2019 to 7.2 million, according to McKinsey & Co.
Conagra Brands saw a 22% profit decline in its most recent quarter, prompting the firm to raise prices for most of its products.
More supply chain news related to the war in Europe:
Congress departed for a two-week recess without passing the latest $10 billion aid deal for COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts, putting the measure in limbo. Lawmakers in the House, meanwhile, approved $55 billion for restaurants and small businesses that did not receive aid during earlier rounds of pandemic relief, but it is unclear whether the bill will pass the Senate.
High numbers of COVID-19 fatalities caused the average U.S. life expectancy to fall for the second year in a row in 2021, down a half-year to 76.6, the lowest in a quarter-century.
The head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve signaled he was in favor of a 3.25% interest rate by the second half of this year.
Employers say they set aside an average 3.9% of total payroll for wage increases in 2022, the largest percentage since 2008.
New U.S. manufacturing jobs were minted at a rate of about 32,000 a month over the past year, the fastest pace in more than 25 years.
The U.S. economy suffered one of the sharpest employment declines of any previous recession in just two months in 2020:
Wall Street banks, once among the mWith the average U.S. mortgage rate hitting 4.72% this week, its highest in three years, home sellers are racing to list their properties before an expected cooling of the market. In a similar vein, companies will likely speed up refinancings to take advantage of the last remnants of low rates.
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Europe’s largest mall operator, will shed most of its $13.2 billion of U.S. properties by the end of 2023 and likely incur steep losses as mall real estate continues to lose its appeal.
Used car prices have declined for two months now, with March seeing the biggest drop since the beginning of the pandemic.
EVgo, the U.S.’s largest rapid-charging network, will partner with Chase Bank to install charging stations at some 50 U.S. branches by next summer.
Tesla opened a $1.1 billion auto-assembly plant in Texas yesterday, its second opening of a so-called Gigafactory the past month.
Deltacron, a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron COVID-19 variants first discovered in France in February, has been detected in Australia as health officials try to determine whether it might combine the virulence of Delta and the contagiousness of Omicron.
In a rare public admission about the impact of Western sanctions, Russia’s prime minister said the nation is in its worst shape in over 30 years. Russia missed dollar-bond payments due to foreign bondholders this week and has until early May to pay creditors before defaulting.
Ireland’s inflation jumped to 6.7% in March, the highest in nearly 40 years.
Mexican consumer prices rose 7.45% year over year in March, the fastest pace in over two decades and more than double the central bank’s target.
Brazil’s currency is up 17.5% so far this year on a wave of positive sentiment that is sharply at odds with the nation’s worsening economic conditions.
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