25 Jun
Nexen Inc (T-NXY, N-NXY; oil and gas producer) shares were down over $2.00 yesterday on no news when oil prices were actually up. The sell off continued today after the US reported a draw down in crude oil inventories sending the price of crude down over $4.00 a barrel before recovering to $134 a […]
Posted in Investor implications, Oil, Stock portfolio change by: arnie
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29 May
Oil:
It was a big day in oil today as the price dropped over $4 to $126. It wasn’t the weekly US oil inventory that caused the drop as the volumes dropped almost 10 million barrels from the previous week; this was the largest drop since the 2004 hurricane season. The drop in inventories was […]
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Investor implications, Oil by: arnie
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18 Apr
Recap:
Wow, another big day in the market with the Dow up 228 and the TSX up 121. Citigroup posted another loss of $5 billion after writing down another $15 billion of assets. Oddly enough the markets were happy with the results, as they were neither as bad as the previous quarter $-10 billion, nor as […]
Posted in Commodities, Housing, Inflationary Policy, Oil, Portfolio, oil sands by: arnie
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15 Apr
Recap:
Dow was up 60 and TSX was up 112. I’m not really sure why the Dow was up other than Johnson and Johnson posted okay results; I guess investors took it as a positive sign that the market woes hadn’t infected all sectors of the economy. TSX was up probably because oil hit another record […]
Posted in Energy, Inflation, Oil, Peak oil by: arnie
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