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Morning Energy Blog – November 18, 2015

Equities and Economy Good morning. On the heels of skyrocketing European equities U.S. stocks started the day green and climbed as high as 109 points higher than Monday’s close and all was looking good. Then reports of a bomb at a soccer stadium in Hanover, Germany hit the wire and the U.S. market did an […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 17, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. Yesterday started out very shaky with all the indexes trading in the red at the open but closing with the best session in 3 weeks boosted by sizeable gains in energy and recovering about half its losses from last week. The Dow jumped a huge 238 points, 1.38%, to […]

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New classifications of natural gas storage regions will begin November 19

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report EIA’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR) publishes weekly natural gas storage inventories by region. Natural gas storage levels have been high and recently reached a record 3,978 trillion cubic feet as of Friday, November 6. In an effort to better illustrate regional storage trends, […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 16, 2015

Equities and the Economy Friday was not a good day for our 401K’s folks. The Dow lost a material 203 points, 1.16%, ending at 17,245, the S&P 500 fell 23, 1.12%, to 2,023 and the more volatile Nasdaq was the laggard closing down 1.54%, 77 points, at 4,928. The S&P marked a 7th loss out […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 13, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning. It was an ugly day for U.S. stocks yesterday. The Dow fell 254 points, 1.44%, ending at 17,448, the S&P was off 29, 1.40%, to 2,046 and the Nasdaq closed down 62, 1.22%, at 5,005. The S&P closed lower for the 6th time in 7 sessions. As I’ve been […]

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El Niño: Spanish For ‘Disrupter Of Energy Markets’

Back in 2009, a colleague started laughing as I was explaining how El Niño affects energy markets in the Americas. When I asked why, he told me to Google ‘Chris Farley El Niño’. While Chris Farley’s short skit (in which the late comedian, dressed as an overweight wrestler, dramatically explains that “El Niño is Spanish […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 12, 2015

Equities and the Economy As I suspected, with it being Veteran’s Day yesterday and the bond market and banks closed, U.S. equities really didn’t do much. Trading was directionless and when the final bell rang the Dow was off 56 at 17,702, the S&P 500 closed down 7 at 2,075 and the Nasdaq fell 16 […]

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Morning Energy Blog – November 11, 2015

Equities and the Economy Good morning and many, many thanks to all you veterans who risked your lives for the rest of us so we can live in freedom in the greatest country on earth. U.S. equities waffled around unchanged all day yesterday not doing much and closed as such. The Dow rose 28 to […]

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