In anticipation of increased crude demand from Chinese refineries, crude oil yesterday finished up 0.72% at 5877. According to data, China’s throughput at oil refineries increased by 15.4% in May compared to the same month last year, making it the country’s second-highest monthly total ever. According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) most recent Oil…
Pressured by a stronger dollar and higher Treasury yields, gold reversed direction and fell below the important $2,000 per ounce threshold as investors searched for clues as to whether the market will witness a “one and done” rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve in May. After climbing as high as 0.6 percent earlier in…
Oil prices increased on Friday as supplies tightened and Russian production appeared to be declining. The market was anticipating the IEA’s monthly report, which would provide more insight into the forecast for global demand, later in the day. The price of Brent crude futures had increased by 34 cents, or 0.39%, to $86.43 per barrel….
Ravindra V Rao, VP-Head Commodity Research at Kotak Securities, said Investors were paralyzed by fear this week as the banking crisis moved from the U.S. to Europe, raising concerns about contagion in the international financial markets. The U.S. regulators announced plans to reduce systemic risk at the beginning of the week in a joint statement…
India, the third-largest energy user in the world, saw a 6% year-over-year decline in natural gas consumption in 2022 as a result of high costs, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), India used 60,523 million standard cubic meters of natural gas in the…
The biggest annual growth rate for any nation will be seen in India’s need for coal in 2022, driven by increased thermal power output to meet higher-than-average summer demand and escalating economic activity. The second-largest consumer of coal in the world increased its consumption by 14% year over year (yoy) to 1,033 million tonnes (mt)…
With constant governmental backing and ambitious commitments made at COP26, India, the third-largest energy consumer in the world, is forecast to add 145 GW of renewable energy (RE) capacity over the next five years, with solar energy accounting for 75% of the expansion. In its most recent report, Renewable 2022, the International Energy Agency (IEA)…
Oil prices declined on Tuesday, wiping out some gains from the previous session as the market worried that more aggressive interest rate increases from central banks may cause a downturn in the global economy and weaken fuel consumption. After rising 4.1% on Monday, the greatest gain in more than a month, Brent crude futures for…
The outlook for global oil markets darkened on Thursday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that slowing demand for crude in the wake of restrictions imposed to curb the fast-spreading Delta variant is colliding with a recent increase in global crude production. But the news is likely to be welcomed by the White House,…
