by Joseph Sykora | Apr 4, 2023 | Blog, Energy, Macro Updates
As recently as last month, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and its representatives suggested that they had no intention of cutting crude oil production for the remainder of 2023. It was only a month ago that rumors swirled around whether UAE would...
by Joseph Sykora | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog, Energy, Macro Updates
In the last two weeks, we’ve received several inquiries regarding energy equity outperformance relative to declining oil prices. Many people reference some version of the following chart: Source: Strategas, 11/29/22 For a commodity-driven sector, the...
by Joseph Sykora | Jun 1, 2022 | Blog, Energy
In prior posts, we have written about the continued tightness in oil markets driven by (among other things) structural underinvestment in productive supply over the past several years. In this post, we will focus more on the products side, specifically gasoline and...
by Joseph Sykora | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog, Energy, Macro Updates
As this is being written, WTI crude oil trades at $96.13/bbl (per barrel); the last time oil closed that high was 2014. Of course, given recent events and the inherent volatility in oil, price could easily be >$100 or <$90/bbl by the time this piece is published...
by Aptus PM Team | Nov 8, 2021 | Blog, Energy, Macro Updates
With OPEC in the news and many countries clamoring for more oil (including President Biden), we figured an update was due…please reach out to the author at [email protected] if you’d like to discuss further. If you’ve filled up your car lately, you likely...