20 years ago, Goldman Sachs used to be a Wall Street legend and a dream company to work for graduates with a financial degree. Over the last few years, the bank has been a loser with thousands of disappointed employees, managers, and investors. However, the other day Goldman Sachs made an attempt to get back in the game.
The trade war between the United States and China is underway. Yet, it has already led to some consequences. For example, international experts say that this war has been the reason for the current weakness of the global market of cryptocurrencies. At the same times, Finanz experts claim that this trade war has dropped oil prices.
In 2017, the United States’ oil export reached 1,1 million barrels on average, which is almost twice as much as exported in 2016. These figures are confirmed by the EIA.
The participants of the OPEC+ deal have recently discussed the efficiency of the deal. Having discussed the results, they decided to change a range of criteria. To do so, they may well have to extend the OPEC+ deal, Bloomberg reports.
What should we expect in the global market of gold in March? Some experts decided to share their forecast.
Russian oil expert Ivan Priobrazhenskiy has commented on the negative outcome of curbing oil production (the OPEC+ deal). He claims that while trying to create an artificial deficit in the global oil market, the OPEC+ deal participants actually did American shale oil producers a huge favor. The thing is that American shale oil companies have been boosting their production over the last year or so, and they can take the United States to the status of the world’s biggest oil producer. They have already outpaced Saudi Arabia and are close to outpacing Russia, which is currently number one in the world in terms of crude oil production.
Oil expert Sergei Shelin decided to share with us his thoughts on the processes currently going on in the global oil market. In particular he thinks that crude oil has been struggling to consolidate around 70 dollars per barrel but the thing is that even the world's biggest oil producers and exporters don't believe in high oil prices in the future.
Oil prices has been continuously moving up and down over the last few decades, and this is something that keeps worrying millions of traders of investors all over the world. The most difficult thing is to figure out why exactly crude oil prices reach a certain level at any given point, especially these days.
According to Bloomberg, all the attempts made by authoritarian governments and dictators to get around Western sanction are vain.
The United States Department of Energy doesn't believe in the OPEC+ deal and expects excessive supply in the global market over the next 2 years. In particular, the January short-term report released by the DoE confirms that. They say this is going to be long-term oversupply.
Brent oil has come close to $70/b. It’s interesting to note that Brent oil has reached this level for the first time since 2014. At the same time, international experts now seem to be overwhelmed by mixed feeling about that.