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Oil rose almost 2% Wednesday on news of another drop in U.S. crude stocks.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were down 2.1% at $88.11/bbl, Brent was down 1.5% at $64.69/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was down 4.9% at $5.96/MMBtu.
U.S. crude stocks fell by 3.1 million barrels last week, according to the Energy Information Administration.
OPEC’s output likely fell in October, putting the group more than 1.3 million bpd below monthly targets.
U.S. heating costs could soar 28% this winter from a year ago, according to the government. Prices will be especially high in New England, which faces a regional heating oil shortage and high natural gas prices.
Soaring costs for U.S. energy producers are far from abating, according to Chesapeake Energy. Rival Devon Energy saw its shares fall 13% Wednesday on fourth-quarter forecasts clouded by higher spending on labor, materials and equipment.
France’s fuel supplies are improving despite 45% of its oil refining capacity remaining offline due to worker strikes.
Venezuelan oil production fell 25% from September to October to one of its lowest levels of the year.
The White House announced a new aid program to give over $13 billion to low- and moderate-income Americans looking for help paying energy bills or making their homes more efficient.
Hurricane Lisa made landfall in Belize Wednesday and is forecast to bring heavy rains across Central America and Mexico in the coming days. Gulf of Mexico oil production could also be affected, forecasters say.
Political protests blocking key roadways in Brazil are starting to ease.
Maersk notched bumper profit of $8.8 billion in the third quarter but said peak freight rates have passed and global container demand will fall more than expected this year.
The Logistics Managers’ Index of capacity rose to 73.1 in October, indicating capacity grew at the fastest pace on record. Meanwhile, an index of U.S. supplier deliveries fell to 46.8 for the month, showing that manufacturing activity is slowing and deliveries are moving at the fastest pace in over a decade, according to the Institute for Supply Management.
Over 60% of American businesses have started reshoring or near-shoring their production in reaction to supply snarls and geopolitics, according to Deloitte.
Qualcomm saw quarterly sales rise 22% but warned of sharply falling demand for smartphone shipments in the months ahead.
Advanced Micro Devices forecast a 14% rise in fourth-quarter sales, a sharp contrast to expected sales declines at Intel and Nvidia.
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate another 75 basis points Wednesday, its sixth hike this year and fourth consecutive 75-point jump. Officials suggested future hikes will be more modest, although the ultimate top-end borrowing rate could end up higher than initially thought.
Led by leisure and hospitality, U.S. private-sector payrolls rose by a larger-than-expected 239,000 in October, according to ADP:
Twitter’s new ownership plans to cut about 3,700 jobs, or half the company’s workforce, to drive down costs.
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state and local lawsuits accusing them of mishandling opioid pain drugs.
Hong Kong and most Gulf states were the quickest to announce interest-rate hikes in lockstep with the U.S. Federal Reserve Wednesday.
The Bank of England raised rates by 75 basis points today, its largest increase since 1989.
Asian equities saw meager inflows in October after a massive selling spree in reaction to new U.S. export controls on China and China’s slow economic recovery.
Venezuela’s 12-month inflation now stands at 114.1%.
Russia’s economy shrank by 5% on an annualized basis in September, new data shows.
Passenger numbers on Russian airlines were down 20% in September from a year ago on continued fallout from Western sanctions.
The largest pilots’ union of Latam Airlines in Chile voted to strike Wednesday, a day before the company said it was planning on concluding its exit from bankruptcy.
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