imaginima/E+ via Getty Images Commercial crude stocks for the week ended February 20: 435.8M barrels . Crude inventory change: +16M barrels vs. -9M barrel s for the week ended February 13. Consensus estimate: +1.800M. Gasoline inventory change: -1M barrels vs. -3.2M barrels for the week ended February 13. Distillates inventory change: +0.3M barrels vs. -4.6M barrels for the week ended February 13....
imaginima/E+ via Getty Images Commercial crude stocks for the week ended February 20: 435.8M barrels . Crude inventory change: +16M barrels vs. -9M barrel s for the week ended February 13. Consensus estimate: +1.800M. Gasoline inventory change: -1M barrels vs. -3.2M barrels for the week ended February 13. Distillates inventory change: +0.3M barrels vs. -4.6M barrels for the week ended February 13. Strategic Petroleum Reserve: 0.0M barrels vs. -4.6M barrels for the week ended February 13. ETFs: ( USO ), ( UCO ), ( SCO ), ( BNO ), ( DBO ), ( USL ). More on Crude Oil Futures, United States Oil Fund LP ETF, etc. Commodities: Oil Prices Gyrate Amid Iran Uncertainty SPX Skew Steepens To 1Y High As Tariff Uncertainty Rises EIA's Global Oil Market Balance Estimate & Forecast Doesn't Fit Its Own Data U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling could ease India’s Russian oil trade worries Trump says U.S. has received 80M barrels from Venezuela, U.S. oil output up 600K bpd
President Xi Jinping meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Beijing on Feb. 25 during his official visit to China. Photo: Xinhua Chinese leader Xi Jinping met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Beijing on Wednesday, seeking to reinforce ties with Europe’s largest economy as geopolitical fragmentation reshapes the global order and urging the two sides to strike a balance between economic c...
President Xi Jinping meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Beijing on Feb. 25 during his official visit to China. Photo: Xinhua Chinese leader Xi Jinping met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Beijing on Wednesday, seeking to reinforce ties with Europe’s largest economy as geopolitical fragmentation reshapes the global order and urging the two sides to strike a balance between economic competition and cooperation. During talks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Xi said that as the world’s second- and third-largest economies, China and Germany shoulder responsibilities that go beyond their bilateral relationship. With the international order undergoing its most profound changes since World War II, he called for deeper strategic trust to help stabilize an increasingly volatile world.
The S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) could plunge to 3,500 by 2028 if the AI revolution succeeds too well, according to a chilling “pre-mortem” scenario released by Citrini Research. The firm warns that a “Global Intelligence Crisis” is forming, where rampant productivity...
The S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) could plunge to 3,500 by 2028 if the AI revolution succeeds too well, according to a chilling “pre-mortem” scenario released by Citrini Research. The firm warns that a “Global Intelligence Crisis” is forming, where rampant productivity...
The North Sea crude market is flashing signs of weakness as heavy buying from Vitol Group and TotalEnergies SE subsides, removing a key pillar of support just as more supply is set to return to the Atlantic Basin. Prices for key North Sea grades have tumbled in recent trading sessions. WTI Midland — one of the six crudes that underpin Dated Brent — traded at a two-month low of $1.70 a barrel above...
The North Sea crude market is flashing signs of weakness as heavy buying from Vitol Group and TotalEnergies SE subsides, removing a key pillar of support just as more supply is set to return to the Atlantic Basin. Prices for key North Sea grades have tumbled in recent trading sessions. WTI Midland — one of the six crudes that underpin Dated Brent — traded at a two-month low of $1.70 a barrel above the global benchmark on Monday, according to traders monitoring the Platts pricing window run by S&P Global Commodity Insights. The downturn is also showing up in derivatives contracts linked to the region’s crude. For the first time since November, weekly Brent contracts for difference, or CFDs, flipped into contango, a structure in which near-term prices are lower than later-dated contracts and which typically signals ample supply. Another key gauge, the so-called Brent DFL, also turned negative , underscoring physical market softness. The weakness may deepen in the weeks ahead, with additional Kazakh barrels returning to the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe following earlier disruption, and high freight rates discouraging purchases by buyers in Asia. Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, and France’s TotalEnergies had been heavy buyers of prompt cargoes in recent weeks. Earlier this month, the two firms purchased a combined 17.5 million barrels in the Platts window and retained a further 7.7 million barrels through the so-called forward-chaining mechanism. That unexplained buying spree has now faded. TotalEnergies switched to selling in the window on Monday for the first time in weeks. TotalEnergies and Vitol both declined to comment on trading operations. The pullback, coupled with the refinery maintenance season in Europe, points to softer demand going forward. And that comes as supply in the Atlantic Basin looks likely to increase. Flows through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium route are set to normalize soon following disruptions . At the same time, el...
Meta is planning to enter the stablecoin space later this year, pending integration with a third-party company to enable payments using the dollar-pegged token technology, Coindesk’s Ian Allison reports, citing three people familiar with the plans. The tech giant is aiming to begin stablecoin integration early in 2H26 and expects to integrate a vendor to assist in administering stablecoin-backed p...
Meta is planning to enter the stablecoin space later this year, pending integration with a third-party company to enable payments using the dollar-pegged token technology, Coindesk’s Ian Allison reports, citing three people familiar with the plans. The tech giant is aiming to begin stablecoin integration early in 2H26 and expects to integrate a vendor to assist in administering stablecoin-backed payments and implementing a new wallet.Claim 50% Off TipRanks PremiumUnlock hedge fund-level data and
Micron (NASDAQ:MU) was once seen as a volatile tech stock that made memory chips, a mundane piece of hardware required by computers that was sometimes in demand, sometimes not. The infamous memory cycle made this stock trade cheaply, since investors were always debating whether or not memory chips were in demand enough to push up ... Forget Nvidia: Micron Is Up 330% in a Year and Still Looks Cheap
Micron (NASDAQ:MU) was once seen as a volatile tech stock that made memory chips, a mundane piece of hardware required by computers that was sometimes in demand, sometimes not. The infamous memory cycle made this stock trade cheaply, since investors were always debating whether or not memory chips were in demand enough to push up ... Forget Nvidia: Micron Is Up 330% in a Year and Still Looks Cheap
Bill Gates has admitted making a “huge mistake” in associating with Jeffrey Epstein, telling staff at his charity foundation that he had affairs with two Russian women but denying involvement in the disgraced financier’s crimes. The Microsoft co-founder is among the prominent names appearing in documents released by the US Justice Department that revealed close friendships, illicit financial deali...
Bill Gates has admitted making a “huge mistake” in associating with Jeffrey Epstein, telling staff at his charity foundation that he had affairs with two Russian women but denying involvement in the disgraced financier’s crimes. The Microsoft co-founder is among the prominent names appearing in documents released by the US Justice Department that revealed close friendships, illicit financial dealings and private photos with convicted sex offender Epstein. In a town hall on Tuesday with staff at...
I looked back to discover the untold story of how western intelligence was misread, even in Kyiv. The conclusion offers a stark warning for the future Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and at this time of year it’s hard not to recall memories of the morning of 24 February 2022, when the fate of Ukraine and the history of Europe were irrevocab...
I looked back to discover the untold story of how western intelligence was misread, even in Kyiv. The conclusion offers a stark warning for the future Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and at this time of year it’s hard not to recall memories of the morning of 24 February 2022, when the fate of Ukraine and the history of Europe were irrevocably changed by the decision of the man in the Kremlin. Around 9pm the evening before, I had received a message from a colleague at another news outlet. It was an unequivocal warning from an intelligence source that the war would start that night. We discussed it among the Guardian’s Ukraine reporting team and international editors. My colleague Emma Graham-Harrison, who was on an overnight train from Kyiv towards the frontline city of Mariupol, decided she would get off halfway, in the middle of the night, and beg a spot on the first train heading back to Kyiv. It turned out to be a wise move: Mariupol was soon under siege and the scene of much of the worst carnage of the war. Emma remained in Kyiv, part of our team covering the initial Russian attack on the capital. Continue reading...
International stocks have steadily lagged the S&P 500 for the last 15 years. That kind of chronic underperformance doesn't build a good reputation and it certainly doesn't inspire investors to throw their money at it. Many people will label the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ: VXUS) (or any international fund for that matter) a "bad" fund. But you can't call a fund bad if you only l...
International stocks have steadily lagged the S&P 500 for the last 15 years. That kind of chronic underperformance doesn't build a good reputation and it certainly doesn't inspire investors to throw their money at it. Many people will label the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ: VXUS) (or any international fund for that matter) a "bad" fund. But you can't call a fund bad if you only look at it through the lens of performance. It ignores how the portfolio is structured, what its core strategy is, and what it means to provide for investors. For example, the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHD) just underperformed the market badly from 2023 to 2025. But its core strategy is to target companies with healthy balance sheets, long histories of dividend payments, and above-average yields . That sounds like a pretty good strategy to me. In its case, it's a good fund whose strategy was simply out of favor, something that happens with all strategies from time to time. Continue reading