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 international market of crude oil seems to be seeing a downtrend again. In particular, Brent oil dropped by $32,77/b earlier today. This is a 2,3% decline relative to the previous close. As for WTI oil, it also dropped, this time by nearly 2% down to $32,52/b. In general, the current state of affairs in the global market of crude oil looks fairly logical. The thing is that the beginning of 2016 is associated with lower oil prices as well as a stock market crash.
According to the EIA, the average price of Brent oil in 2016 is expected to be somewhere around $56 per barrel (against $53 per barrel in 2015). Still, the agency warns that this prediction is unreliable since the oil market is probably going to be pretty volatile next year.
According to the Royal Bank of Scotland , oil prices may go down to $16 per barrel in early 2016. The experts say there is every reason to expect just that – increasing oversupply, lower demand and abnormally mild winter because of the so-called El Nino.
As you can probably see, despite the current recovery, the global market of crude oil remains under downward pressure. Amid increasing oversupply, oil prices got down to 35 dollars per barrel and set a new 7-year low.
Last week, the USA made a major decision, which is expected to bring major changes to the entire global economy. The thing is that President Obama signed the 2016 draft budget. This is good news for U.S. oil companies since the oil export embargo is now canceled, which means those companies are now capable of exporting their oil. This is a major event since this is the beginning of a whole new era when the USA turned from an oil importer into an oil exporter. Some experts say this is going to bring some major changes to the global market.
Some global tendencies are still pressing oil prices. However, few experts pay attention to the fact that technological progress seen over the last few decades has been contributing to alternative energies and curbing the upward potential of the global oil market, Masterforex-V Academy experts report.
The international financial community has been waiting for this event for months. The thing is that the Fed eventually raised the key interest rate yesterday. The central bank decided to increase the rate by 0,25% up to 0,5%. For those of you who don’t know, the last time he Fed raised the interest rates was 2006, a couple of years before the global financial crisis.