The natural-gas market is reaching a historically pivotal phase of the year, with the price swings typically occurring in the summer and winter months, said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
The U.S. dollar, which rallied to a two-month high last week, is demonstrating a bullish signal from a technical perspective and has the potential to trend up in the coming months. The greenback’s strength will weigh on equities, starting by the beginning of June, noted Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
As such, the pain trade has been higher for all of 2023 and that’s helping support stocks despite decidedly mixed fundamentals (and mixed is being generous),” Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research wrote. Click here to read the full article.
Oil futures finished with a loss on Monday, with traders weighing the prospects for energy demand. A “shockingly strong” Empire State Manufacturing Index reading Monday helped to live the odds of an interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve in May, said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
“Bottom line, the fundamental dynamics of the oil market changed this week with OPEC+’s announced production cut, which they said was geared towards regaining control of the markets and spooking speculators out of the market,” said analysts at Sevens Report Research, in a Thursday note. Click here to read the full article.
“The banks are the main driver of oil, and really all risk assets today, as fading confidence in the financial system is reigniting fears that another crisis may be looming after we saw some of the biggest bank failures since 2008 in early March,” said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
U.S. oil prices had broken down out of the 2023 trading range to reach multi-year lows last week, with contagion fears stemming from the first bank failures since the Great Financial Crisis triggered massive volatility and significant risk-off money flows early last week, said Tyler Richey, co-editor at Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
Powell’s comments before the Senate Tuesday “sent the clear message that economic data in the near term will be critical for the decision-making process on the pace of future rate hikes and eventually the terminal rate,” said Tyler Richey, co-editor of Sevens Report Research. Click here to read the full article.
The “primary risk to oil prices remains to the downside as recession warnings from the Treasury market point to a potential collapse in consumer demand in the coming months or quarters,” analysts at Sevens Report Research wrote. Click here to read the full article.
The release plans were part of a congressional-mandate related to annual budgets that has been in place for almost a decade, Tyler Richey, co-editor of Sevens Report Research, told MarketWatch. But “when traders see an SPR release headline cross the wires, they think ‘more supply on the market’ and hit the sell button first and ask questions later.” Click here to read the full article.
