Financials and Investment News
| Austria >> 9/16/2008 - Crude oil prices have continued their downward trend with the OPEC Reference Basket declining more than $42/b or roughly 30% in the space of two months from a peak of almost $141/b reached in early Ju... |
| Austria >> 9/16/2008 - Trends in selected commodity markets The declining trend across most commodity prices witnessed in July month-on-month (m-o-m) continued in August irrespective of the specific conditions o... |
| Austria >> 9/16/2008 - The futures market continued the downward trend with investors exiting the market on fund sell-offs for profit-taking. However, volatility continued on supply disruptions from West Africa and geopolit... |
| Austria >> 9/16/2008 - OPEC Reference Basket The Basket emerged in the first week of August on continued weakness due to slow economic growth which was denting oil demand, while the rebound in the US dollar insp... |
| Russia >> 8/29/2008 - Lukoil net income excluding hedging and impairment loss reached $8,168 in the first half of 2008, which is an increase of 103.5% y-o-y. Reported net income amounted to $7,293 million in the first half... |
| China >> 8/27/2008 - CNOOC Limited announced that benefiting from both of the favorable oil price environment and its solid operational performance, in the first half of 2008, the Company’s oil and gas sales increased 63.... |
| China >> 8/27/2008 - PetroChina announced that the Company recorded consolidated net profit attributable to equity holders of the Company of RMB53.62 billion for the six months ended 30 June 2008, representing a decrease ... |
| India >> 8/26/2008 - ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC), announced that OVL and Imperial Energy Corporation have reached an agreement on the terms of recomme... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - The OPEC Reference Basket rose $2.89/b or 2% in July to set a new monthly high of $131.22/b. In daily terms, the Basket jumped sharply higher in the first days of the month to peaking at $140.73 on 4 ... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - Non-OPEC Forecast for 2008 Non-OPEC supply growth is expected to stand at 0.58 mb/d, steady from last month’s assessment. Emerged production data indicate that non-OPEC supply ... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - World oil demand in 2009 World oil demand is forecast to grow by 0.9 mb/d in 2009, averaging 87.80 mb/d, unchanged from last month’s forecast. Non-OECD oil demand growth of 1.2 mb/d will a... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - Estimate for 2008 Demand for OPEC crude in 2008 is expected to average 32.05 mb/d, a decline of 110 tb/d over the previous year. On a quarterly basis, demand for OPEC crude is estimated to... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - OPEC Reference Basket The crude oil market kicked off the month on a strong note amid a weakening US dollar while geopolitical tensions continued to escalate. The OPEC Reference Basket ave... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - The petroleum complex emerged the month on a strong bullish trend. A draw on the US crude oil stocks, the weak dollar exchange rate and escalating geopolitical tensions in the Mideast were the main dr... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - Industrialised countries United States of America The US grew at a 1.9% annualised rate in Q208, buoyed by the fiscal stimulus. However, the outlook for the second half of this... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - Deteriorating demand in the OECD countries, particularly in the US along with costly crude oil significantly undermined refining economics across the world in July. The current sentiment in the produc... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - OPEC spot fixtures were almost steady in July compared to the previous month, increasing by less than 1% to reach 14.0 mb/d, according to preliminary data. The slight rise was supported mainly by the ... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - OECD OECD crude oil imports in June increased for the second consecutive month by about 148,000 b/d or 0.5% compared to the previous month, averaging 29.84 mb/d. June crude oil imports wer... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - USA In July, US total commercial oil stocks continued their upward trend and increased a further 13.2 mb, which corresponds to almost double the typical seasonal build. However, despite th... |
| Austria >> 8/15/2008 - Trends in selected commodity markets A downward trend was imposed on most commodity markets in July month-on-month (m-o-m) regardless of the specific conditions of each market. The IMF com... |
