Podcasts about commodi

This month, the S&P Global Platts Metals Meltdown series focuses on recent market developments in the Mexican rebar market and takes a look at what topics will become important in 2019. In this episode, Platts analyzes international factors on the Mexican steel market such as the US tariffs on...

Will US President Donald Trump agree to weaken or lift sanctions during an historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Only Trump likely knows. On this week’s Capitol Crude, Daniel Fried and Bill Richardson discuss the likelihood of sanctions negotiations at the upcoming summit....

Where are oil prices, supply and demand heading in 2018? And how will Washington policy shape oil markets?Capitol Crude talks with three experts about where they think oil prices will be at the end of 2018, what factors will influence the market and what US oil policy issues will dominate.The...

US producers continue to fight against federal rules limiting methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations. The Trump administration has put an Obama-era methane rule on hold until 2019 as they draft another, likely weaker rule, but a major industry group has launched a methane emissions...

F. William Engdahl and Michael Oliver return. Mainstream media tells us oil prices are collapsing because Iran is shipping more oil and demand from China is weak. Engdahl explains why most if not all of the reasons given really are a Wall Street elite setting us up for an explosive turn upward. We will explore the bigger picture of the U.S./Saudi alliance as it pertains to the petrodollar and the U.S. dollar retaining reserve currency status. Also, to what extent is trade between Russia and China hiding strength in their respective economies? To what extent is the absence of that trade with the West contributing to growing weakness of other commodity producing nations? What about reports that Russia is selling oil to China in exchange for gold? That and many more questions will be asked of Mr. Engdahl. Then, we will seek Michael Oliver's views on the oil markets from a technical viewpoint. Does Michael think we could be nearing a major price turn for oil any time soon?