natural gas

Energy Report

The weak tone of yesterday’s session indicates that oil prices may move toward the lower end of the two-week consolidation near $89.00 in the near-term. Focus will be on DOE inventories and ADP payrolls today, which may offer modest pressure. Pressure could also come from a lack of investment moving into energy markets at the start of Q4, concerns over global growth, and a slow pace of reform in Spain and Greece. Support may be found from favorable car sales reported yesterday, and relative strength in the euro. We’d look for prices to test support at $88.95 (Sep 26th low) over the next few days.

Energy Report

The S&P is up over 14% on the year, $ follows $ and the world loves equities over nearly everything else, is it any surprise to see a surge in equities yesterday while grains get punished and it happened to be the 1st day of the new quarter?

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S markets started off the 4th quarter with strong trading intraday gains, although the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes did close solidly in the green the markets did exhibit the most recent trend off lately of selling off into the close.  U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs with the NASDAQ falling into negative.   The averages ended the day well off

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets struggled the first 3 sessions of the week as its on pace for the largest weekly move in 4 months.  However, in today’s pre-market U.S. futures are pointing to bounce higher at the open as traders approached not only end of the week but the end of the 3rd quarter.

Crude Oil Remains Under Pressure

Crude oil continue to moved lower in today’s session on fear of global economic growth and worries about Spanish debt crisis spinning out of control. Energy traders as well traders of growth commodities became cautious on Monday when Federal Reserve Bank of New York index was reported to have fallen to -10.4 for the month of September hitting a 3 year low.  The previous months reading was -5.8 with analysts’

Natural Gas

Cheniere Energy (LNG, quote) has been on trek higher since June 4th drop with the last 8 session flying much higher as the U.S. looks to natural gas as a bridge fuel.

Crude Oil Hitting 5 Month High

WTI Crude Oil prices crossed the $100 market for the first time since May 3rd on 3 catalysts ranging from the Federal Reserve’s announcement of an aggressive QE3 to the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. September Crude Oil contracts traded as high as $100.42 before pull back under the $100 level to $99.50 on possible profit taking going into the weekend, however, remains well supported as tensions

U.S. Stock Market

U.S. markers end the day yesterday mixed on the Federal Reserves’ extension to year end for Operation Twist and the lowering of GDP forecast. Futures today are suggesting continued red ahead of the bell.

Patriot Problems Pressure Coal ETF

Things are really going to worse from bad for the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL [stock KOL]), the dominant exchange-traded product devoted to coal stocks, this year. Shares of Patriot Coal (PCX [stock PCX] are off more than 54% today on chatter the company may have to seek bankruptcy protection and there’s speculation Patriot has met with restructuring advisers, perhaps a sign the company won’t be able to meet its

Commodity Settlement Report

Wednesday April 25 Commodities Review