The refining business has been in the news a lot recently for two things. One, it’s making money again. Two, integrated oil companies are shedding refining assets at a rapid pace. Now’s a good...
This morning’s report from the US Energy Information Administration (our coverage here) showed that commercial crude oil inventories in the US rose by 4.2 million barrels last week. At the same...
The weekly oil inventories are out from the Department of Energy and we have yet another trend that is good for the consumer but probably not the greatest news for oil bulls.  Still, the markets and...
As of about 9:30 this morning, Brent crude is trading at its lowest price in three months, and the price differential between Brent and WTI crude closed to about $12/barrel last week before widening...
With pump prices for gasoline approaching $4/gal everywhere and $5/gal in some US cities, it would seem logical that crude oil refiners are a good bet to do well. It’s not that simple, though, and...
What will happen to ethanol makers when the US subsidy ends in December, as appears increasingly likely? Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) apparently believes that demand  will continue strong, at least in...
Energy stocks have taken a pounding since crude oil prices started falling in July. In virtually every part of the energy business, share prices for the premiere companies are off by as much as...
We’ve seen several analyst calls on Wall Street this morning out of the oil patch, and here are some of the key calls: Hess (NYSE: HES), Sunoco (NYSE: SUN), and Tesoro (NYSE: TSO) were all...
We are starting to see some elevated options trading that appeared on the unusual volume screens.  Many of these are pre-earnings trading and some are on other expectations.  We have more detailed...
Yesterday’s crashing market sent crude oil to its lowest close in eight months. WTI crude fell even further this morning, to below $76/barrel before turning around to rise above $82/barrel at...
Day traders and active  traders have many stocks to choose from.  Some are on earnings, some are not.  The top day trader and active trader alerts early this Tuesday are BP plc (NYSE: BP), Rambus...
The Department of Energy is out with its weekly oil and gasoline inventory data.  Crude oil stocks fell by 191,000 barrels in the last week to 384.438 million barrels.  We were expecting a larger...
The US Senate, by a 73-27 margin, has approved an amendment to an economic development bill that would end the $0.45/gallon ethanol credit and the $0.54/gallon tariff on imported ethanol. A similar...
Source: ThinkstockAfter Leading the S&P 500 and the energy sector for the past two years, and into the first quarter of this year, the U.S. refining sector hit a rough patch in March. A narrowing of...