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Friday, March 21, 2014

Who Just Dumped $220 Million Nasdaq Futures In 1 Second?

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Who Just Dumped $220 Million Nasdaq Futures In 1 Second?

Friday, March 14, 2014

Futures Movers: Oil edges up, but ends nearly 4% lower on week

By Myra P. Saefong and Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch

Bloomberg

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Oil futures closed higher on Friday, but fell nearly 4% for the week, as traders assessed the risks tied to the week’s referendum in Crimea, which could threaten crude supplies from Russia as well as energy demand in the region.

The market also weighed a monthly report showing an unexpected surge in last month’s Iraqi output to its highest level since 1979.

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Crude oil for April delivery /quotes/zigman/2196842/realtime CLJ4 +0.78% picked up 69 cents, or 0.7%, to settle at $ 98.89 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Thursday, prices posted a gain for the first time in four sessions.

Tracking the most-active contracts, prices saw a loss of roughly 3.6% for the week, with much of that decline due to concerns over the prospects for energy demand following data showing a slowdown in China’s economy. Read: Another worrying chart on China.

On ICE Futures, April Brent crude /quotes/zigman/2648926/realtime UK:LCOJ4 +1.07% , meanwhile, added $ 1.18, or 1.1%, to end at $ 108.57 a barrel on the contract’s expiration day. Prices for the contract lost about 0.4% for the week.

“It is a difficult analysis as to whether the Ukraine situation is bullish or bearish for oil,” analysts at the Kilduff Report said on Friday.

“Russia’s oil production and supply to Europe hangs in the balance and its loss to the market is certainly supportive,” they said. “The U.S. cannot fill the gap with [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] oil or anything else.”

The U.S. government announced earlier this week that it’s selling up to 5 million barrels of sour crude from the petroleum reserve in order to “assess the system’s capabilities in the event of a disruption.” Analysts have speculated whether the sale has anything to do with the turmoil in Ukraine.

For the global oil market, however, “the damage to the economy of Europe and Russia would be greatly impacted by a battle and the accompanying sanctions,” said the analysts at the Kilduff Report. “The slowdown would reverberate to China and the U.S., due to Europe’s woes. The expected economic drag is likely large enough to make the net analysis that oil prices would fall.”

IEA reports jump in Iraq output

In addition to a referendum due Sunday in the Ukrainian region of Crimea to gauge support for it breaking away to join Russia, markets also digested news from the International Energy Agency’s monthly oil report.

Increases in oil supply from the U.S. and Canada as well as a surprise jump in Iraqi crude production in February helped to offset rising demand brought on by the cold U.S. winter and geopolitical concerns linked to Russia and Ukraine, the IEA said on Friday.

U.S. grid sabotage could cause national blackout

The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out nine of the country’s electric-transmission substations on a summer day, according to a previously unreported federal analysis.

“The interesting spin … is the big up-shift in [the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries] production volumes recently,” said Matt Parry, chief oil analyst at the IEA in Paris.

Essentially, 500,000 barrels per day of additional OPEC supplies were seen in February, to 30.5 million barrels per day, “as much higher Iraqi volumes surprised everyone,” he told MarketWatch. “Nobody, including ourselves, had been expecting this,” with Iraqi crude along surging by 530,000 barrels per day for the month to 3.62 million barrels per day.

“Given the recent uptick in geopolitical tensions — which is about the most I can really say about the Crimea at the moment — the likely easing in the call on OPEC [demand for OPEC oil], to 28.9 [million barrels a day] in 1Q14, should provide something of a cushion to markets, noting OPEC produced 30.5 mb/d in February and 30.0 mb/d in January,” he said.

Back on Nymex Friday, April natural gas /quotes/zigman/2307996/realtime NGJ14 +0.87% tacked on 4 cents, or 1%, to $ 4.425 per million British thermal units. The move came after a 2.4% drop the previous day on the back of weekly U.S. supply data that printed roughly in line with estimates. For the week, prices lost about 4.2%.

April gasoline /quotes/zigman/4332134/realtime RBJ4 +0.84% edged up by almost 3 cents, or 0.9%, to $ 2.96 a gallon, down about 0.3% from the week-ago close, while April heating oil /quotes/zigman/9821441/realtime HOJ4 +0.68% over 2 cents, or 0.8%, to $ 2.94 a gallon, losing 2.3% on the week.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Oil, Natural-gas Futures Lose Ground

LOS ANGELES – New York-traded oil and natural-gas futures lost ground in electronic trade Monday, with a slightly firmer U.S. dollar among the factors weighing on the contracts. Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell 21 cents, or 0.2%, to $ 97.28 a barrel, extending a 0.8% retreat Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for March , however, was little changed, adding 2 cents to trade at $ 106.42 a barrel. March natural gas extended its sharp downward trend, losing 11 cents, or 2.3%, to $ 4.83 per million British thermal units, with the loss coming on top of a 1.4% drop Friday.

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Who Just Dumped $220 Million Nasdaq Futures In 1 Second?

Friday, March 14, 2014

Futures Movers: Oil edges up, but ends nearly 4% lower on week

IEA reports jump in Iraq output

U.S. grid sabotage could cause national blackout

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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Oil, Natural-gas Futures Lose Ground