Market Analysis

OPEC meeting FOMC decision and UK-US GDP in focus

By Lukman Otunuga | July 24, 2017

A sense of caution seems to be the theme for the financial markets as trading gets underway for the week, with investors braced and preparing for an incredibly busy week packed with both crucial economic reports and major risk events.

Crude: OPEC optimism

By Phil Flynn | July 24, 2017

OPEC and non-OPEC leaders are wrapping up their meeting in St. Petersburg Russia and it looks like it has yielded some positive results. Not only did Nigeria agree to cap their oil production output at 1.8 million barrels a day, the Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al Falih, speaking after the meeting broke up, seemed optimistic that the path they were on would eventually get global supply back in balance.

Crude: Russia is all the rage

By Phil Flynn | July 21, 2017

For oil and the markets, Russia is all the rage. There is the big OPEC/non-OPEC pow-wow in Russia and reports that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is opening an investigation into President Donald Trump's business transactions with Russia one day after the President said that that would be a red-line for him.

Crude: Testing the waters

By Phil Flynn | July 19, 2017

Saudi Arabia was testing the waters by sending a signal that the kingdom might cut crude exports by 1 million barrels to shock and awe oil out of this sideways trading range ahead of Monday’s OPEC technical meeting. While the market did respond positively to the news, there was still some skepticism that the Saudis would make that happen.

US uranium company advances its assets

By Heiko Ihle  | July 18, 2017

Energy Fuels Inc. (EFR:TSX; UUUU:NYSE.MKT) "continues to advance its pipeline of assets while maintaining production optionality," Heiko Ihle wrote in a July 10 research report.

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