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Supply
Oil fell over 2% Monday as the collapse of a pair of U.S. banks roiled equities markets and raised fears of a financial contagion.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were down 1.8% at $73.45/bbl, Brent was down 1.4% at $79.62/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was down 0.6% at $2.59/MMBtu.
The number of containerships in U.S. coastal waters has fallen 51% since last year to a total of 106.
Freightos, an online freight booking platform, slashed its growth forecasts amid sputtering cargo volumes and faltering freight rates.
Growing demand for oil in a reopening China have sent spot rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) above $100,000 per day, up from $38,000 a day in January, with rates from the Mideast to China up over 20% just last Friday.
Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with two of its unions to provide up to seven paid sick days per year to workers.
U.S. regulators are taking a closer look at Apollo Global Management’s proposed takeover of Atlas Air.
The United Nations is working to extend a Black Sea initiative signed with Russia that allows for safe grain transport to prevent a global food crisis.
In the latest news from the auto industry:
Volkswagen plans to spend $192 billion over the next five years to develop electric vehicles and strengthen its positions in China and the U.S.
Volkswagen chose Canada for its first battery cell plant outside Europe.
GM agreed to hike salaries by 10% this year at its largest Mexico factory, marking one of the largest-ever raises in Mexico’s auto sector.
Porsche expects sales to rise to as much as $45 billion this year after the luxury carmaker posted its highest annual earnings in 2022 since going public.
GM is exploring the use of groundbreaking new artificial-intelligence chatbots as an in-car voice assistant.
British electric-vehicle startup Arrival raised over $300 million to launch U.S. production of its first van in 2024.
Hyundai is nearing a deal to buy a plant from GM as part of its expansion plan in India.
Bracing for a steep fall in COVID-19 vaccine sales, Pfizer struck a $43 billion deal to acquire cancer treatment developer Seagen.
Private U.S. fast-food chain Chick-fil-A plans to spend about $1 billion to open new locations in five international markets by 2030.
The number of renter households making $150,000 or more a year rose by almost 90% between 2016 and 2021 as housing costs inflated.
A new survey suggests some 3 out of every 4 Americans regret relocating during 2021’s housing market boom.
International Markets
European banks are well positioned to avoid the capital squeeze affecting many regional U.S. banks in the aftermath of the SVB and Signature bank failures.
Wage growth in the U.K. declined to 6.5% in the three months ended in January, down from 6.7% in the three months ended in December, the first decline since 2021.
Staff at several airports in major German cities went on strike Monday, grounding all outbound commercial flights and impacting arrivals.
The recent rally has stalled for copper prices, which fell 4.3% from January to February, due to a sluggish recovery for the economy in China, which consumes over 50% of the metal globally.
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