Tag: unemployment

Best in Energy – 5 August 2022

Saudi/UAE save spare capacity for emergency

EU fills gas storage but ten times normal cost

EU explores gas-to-fuel oil switching ($BBG)

GLOBAL FOOD PRICES fell for the fourth month running in July, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s price index, but they are still +13% higher than in the same month in 2021:

U.S. INITIAL CLAIMS for unemployment insurance benefits are trending upward, with an average of 255,000 claims filed in the four weeks ending on July 29, up from 171,000 in the four weeks ending on April 1, indicating the job market has started to cool:

U.S. GAS INVENTORIES increased by +41 billion cubic feet last week and have risen by +1,075 bcf in total since the start of April. But stocks are still -377 bcf (-13%) below the pre-pandemic five-year average for 2015-2019 and show no sign of erasing the deficit:

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Best in Energy – 25 July 2022

EU softens oil-trading related sanctions on Russia

China’s biggest coal miner boosts output (trans.)

U.K. transmission grid hits capacity limit ($BBG)

Dark tanker market grows competitive

Urban centres and heatwaves ($FT)

Oil exploration accelerates ($BBG)

China’s lessons from Russia’s war

U.S. INITIAL CLAIMS for unemployment insurance benefits have been trending upwards since the start of April, albeit from an exceptionally low base, indicating the labour market may be starting to cool:

BRENT futures for September delivery are showing characteristics of a squeeze, trading in a backwardation of almost $5 per barrel compared with October. But further forward, spreads have softened significantly in recent weeks, as traders anticipate an increased probability a recession will dampen oil consumption:

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