By John Richardson OUR blogs are awarding themselves a pat on the back today. The reason is that investment bank Goldman Sachs, the largest player in commodity markets, has completely reversed its analysis of oil markets. They now accept our...
By Malini Hariharan GROWTH in China and other leading economies has slowed and oil prices have slipped but analysts are predicting strong prices for the rest of 2011 and 2012. Their reasoning is based on continued speculative activity in this commodity...
By John Richardson THE next OPEC meeting - which takes place in Ecuador this Saturday (11 December) - is crucial for petrochemicals for two reasons. Firstly, the crude market has turned bullish recently as a result of the early onset...
....again By John Richardson THE sharp fall in polyethylene (PE) pricing in China is being blamed on speculative acquisition of cargoes by traders in March and a rise in local production. Apparent consumption (imports plus local production) is reported...
Goldman Sachs is talking about crude oil at $85 a barrel by the end of the year. Sound familiar? Not quite forecasts of $200 a barrel, but is there a danger of repeating the mistake that the James A...
Peak Oil, Jimi Hendrix, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, Alberta Tar Sands, resource nationalism
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