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Supply
Oil fell 1% to a two-week low on Thursday amid increased worries of a U.S. recession.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were up 0.4% at $76.04/bbl, Brent was up 0.5% at $82.02/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was down 2.3% at $2.48/MMBtu.
TotalEnergies was unable to make deliveries from its French refineries Thursday due to widespread worker strikes.
The EU is adding eight LNG regasification terminals, raising the total to 35, as it continues its transition from Russian energy sources.
Refiner Citgo Petroleum reported record net profit of $2.8 billion last year on strong motor fuel demand.
China’s crude imports are down 1.3% year to date from the same time in 2022 but are expected to pick up significantly later this year.
Oil majors with operations in Brazil filed an injunction against the government’s surprise new export tax on oil passed a week ago.
By the end of 2023, governments across the globe could end up spending a combined $1.65 trillion to subsidize energy costs after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
New U.S. solar installations dropped 16% to 20.2 GW last year, largely due to an import ban on some Chinese components.
U.S. container imports likely plunged 20% in the first two months of 2023, according to Descartes Systems Group. Continued destocking of bloated wholesale inventories is likely to depress imports until later in the year.
Customer service satisfaction among owners of electric vehicles is lower than those who own combustion-engine cars, according to a new survey by J.D. Power.
BMW reported a 12% rise in fourth-quarter earnings. lagging some analysts’ expectations.
Chinese battery giant CATL posted sharply slower growth in fourth-quarter net profit after consumer caution hit electric-vehicle demand in the world’s largest auto market.
Domestic Markets
The four biggest U.S. banks lost $52 billion of market value Thursday, part of a broad rout across financial stocks after a Silicon Valley lender exposed potential cracks in the financial system, saying a drop in bond values and withdrawals by companies forced it to sell assets and seek more equity capital.
Household net worth rose 2% to a total of $147.71 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2022, as rising stock market prices offset falling real estate values.
U.S. employers added 311,000 jobs in February, a slower but still robust growth rate, as unemployment rose to 3.6% and hourly wages grew 4.6%.
Layoffs rose fivefold year-over-year in February to 77,770, with tech jobs accounting for about a third of the total, according to analysts.
Experts say that America’s wide-ranging worker shortage could become a tax on growth and trigger a new wave of offshoring, like the one the $52 billion Chips Act is aiming to reverse.
U.S. buyback announcements are running at a record pace this year despite the majority coming from only five companies, according to JPMorgan.
The U.S. State Department said that passport renewals can take up to 11 weeks due to a surge in international travel.
General Electric forecast a hefty revenue gain at its aviation business through 2025, driven by strong demand for jet engines and aftermarket services.
Bayer AG plans to spend $1 billion on drug research and development in the U.S. this year as it works to double its sales in the country by 2030.
Walmart’s online subscription service, Walmart+, is gaining ground against Amazon’s Prime service, new figures show.
Vinyl records outsold CDs last year for the first time since 1987.
International Markets
European bank stocks plunged today following the rout in U.S. bank stocks after a Silicon Valley lender faced a capital squeeze.
China’s annual inflation rate fell to a lower-than-expected 1% in February from 2.1% the prior month:
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