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By Julianne Geiger - Aug 14, 2020, 5:00 PM CDT Natural gas prices spiked on Friday by nearly 9%, even as the weekly storage report showed little movement.Natural gas prices hit $2.367...

Oil prices have been trading in a relatively tight range for the last few weeks, and despite the recent bullish momentum WTI hasn’t been able to break out.For Global Energy Alert members there are now two new free reports...

State-stimulated recovering industrial activity and increased road freight and e-commerce deliveries are set to push up China’s diesel demand to a record high this year, analysts have told Reuters.China’s recovering economy and the government stimulus to infrastructure activities are...

Vape Use is Increasing Which is Good News for Pot Stocks In the past few months, reports have shown that cannabis vaporizer use is up in North America. While many still prefer to smoke cannabis flower, marijuana stocks have benefitted...

Baker Hughes reported on Friday that the number of combined oil and gas rig count in the US fell yet again this week by 3, to 244, as the pandemic continues to batter the oil and gas industry that...

By Editorial Dept - Aug 14, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT 1. Gold rally comes to “explosive end”- The gold rally came to an “explosive end” this week, as Commerzbank described it. Gold lost 6 percent on Tuesday, the largest single-day...

By Editorial Dept - Aug 14, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT COVID Market Update- The IEA has cut its 2020 oil production forecast by 140,000 bpd to 91.9 million bpd, sending the FTSE 100 index down 73 points. The IEA cited...

By Editorial Dept - Aug 14, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT If, like me, you like to trade energy-related products, whether futures, stocks, options, or whatever, the last two months or so have been boring or, more positively I guess, peaceful....

By Editorial Dept - Aug 14, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT After 25 years, we have the first peace treaty agreement between Israel and an Arab country- in this case, the UAE. That makes allies (including in energy) out of two...

China has approved the merger of two of Shandong province’s top state-owned coal miners, Shandong Energy Group and Yankuang Group, a decision that effectively creates a new top company in the world’s top producer and consumer of the fossil fuel.The combined...

The hostile U.S. position on the Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is a breach of international law, according to the majority of EU members, German daily Die Welt reported today.According to the report, the European Union communicated a...

Sundial Growers Announces Pricing of its US$20 Million Registered Offering Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL) (“Sundial” or the “Company”) announced today that it has priced a best efforts underwritten registered offering of 25,820,000 Series A Units, each consisting of one...

How Bullish Sentiment Could Find Its Way Into These Two Pot Stocks to Watch In the past few months, we have seen the cannabis industry take a bullish turn. Although there are still days where pot stocks take on losses,...

These Smaller Marijuana Stocks May Have Better Long Term Growth Prospects 2020 has been a wild year for marijuana stocks, to say the least. When we started this year, things were looking quite good, but very quickly that changed. The...

Though it's still anything but clear whether Israel will abide by this, Reuters writes of the breaking news that:Under the agreement, Israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the West Bank that it has been discussing annexing, senior...

Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm PDVSA looks to restart another gasoline-producing unit soon, hoping to ease the gasoline shortages in the country that sits atop the world’s largest crude oil reserves.PDVSA aims to restart the gasoline-producing unit at its CRP...

Offshore wind has the potential to become a major industry in the United States over the next decade, unlocking billions of U.S. dollars of investment and creating thousands of jobs.  From California’s coast to the Atlantic Coast, the U.S....

Private Chinese firm Hengli Petrochemical, which operates one of the largest private refineries in China, has boosted its crude oil storage capacity by 22.6 million barrels to a total of 37.8 million barrels, Argus Media quoted the refiner as...

Two weeks ago, America's largest smartphone maker, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), announced a 4-for-1 stock split that will be executed at the end of August. Apple said it pulled off the move "...to attract new investors" shortly after delivering a...

Venezuela’s oil exports – which have dropped significantly over the past year because of the U.S. sanctions – are suffering another blow these days: the quality of the crude loaded on tankers is so poor that loadings are being...