…settled 94 cents lower at 62.44 a barrel, as trading in the May oil contract expired. Oil reports now referencing the contract price of US light sweet crude for June…

…cases. allowing businesses and governments to ignore them when making long-term investment decisions. coupled to economic growth, global emissions continued to rise. Regulatory carbon pricing in both taxes and trading schemes…

…Moreover, there is only a very tenuous relationship between oil prices and gasoline prices. Oil companies have control of neither. Pricing is set in New York. Daily trading in front…

…thin trading, with all of the A-list movers and shakers away from their desks) on Friday, the underlying indicators for the economy in all timeframes remain generally positive. As usual,…

…5 year Treasury yield spread, which was inverted intraday, un-inverted by the close of the trading day. Here is what the US Treasury yield curve looked like yesterday: As you…

…were to forcibly assert its claim to Taiwan. Some analysts tell us not to worry: global economic integration itself protects us against war, . . . successful trading economies won’t…

…assert its claim to Taiwan. Some analysts tell us not to worry: global economic integration itself protects us against war,… successful trading economies won’t risk their prosperity by engaging in…

In midday trading, the Dow Jones industrial average slumping 3.3 percent. The S&P 500 index sinking 165 points, or 3.8 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was losing biggly, giving back 651…

…down the river.  It’s also Manchin and Sinema, Pelosi (Congressional stock trading), Democratic house members representing affluent suburbs (demanding SALT deductions), Democratic governors (giving up on single payer health care),…

…sales in various markets, although reportedly at discount prices. Well, crude oil prices have fallen quite a bit in the last two months, with Brent crude now trading at below…