Category: Crude Oil

Crude Oil Prices – Weekly Recap July 16-20

Crude oil prices continued to rally during last week. Further, the gap between Brent and WTI was also expanded. The news of the increase in the Philly Fed index and housing starts may have contributed to the increase in oil…

Is Chesapeake walking towards the right path?

Moving Correlation (20 days) Chesapeake Energy Corporation OIL 2012 jULY

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) rallied in the past few weeks. The recent steps the company took such as selling Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P may have contributed to its rally. It seems the company is headed towards scaling down its…

Philly Fed Index Slightly Rose in July

Today, the seventh survey of 2012 for the Philly Fed Manufacturing Index for July was published: this survey estimates the U.S. manufacturing conditions have slightly improved by are still deteriorating; the Philly Fed index rose from -16.6 in June to…