-
The global oil industry: Where does struggling BP go from here?
Lucy Wallwork Natural ResourcesThe new year for BP has started with reports of thousands more job cuts, and the axing of a high-profile art sponsorship deal as the London-based major rushes to cut both operating and capital costs in the wake of historic losses for 2015 that surprised markets.
-
Metals Thoughts: A crack in the dam
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesDespite Thursday's drop, gold (and to some extent silver) can still be considered as having outperformed everything it is normally correlated with. Put simply, either gold knows something the rest of the world doesn't or we are due for some repricing.
-
Industrial marketing begins with great content, but how do you…
Kyle Fiehler EngineeringMore and more research in the industrial sector is being conducted online. For instance, a study of 2015 digital media use in the industrial sector published by the firm IHS Engineering360 found that 77 percent of engineers use digital media to find parts, services and suppliers.
-
Metals Thoughts: Friday Happy Hour
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesAfter a strong suite of jobs data this morning, gold continues to outperform expectations. In continuation of a three-week trend, the reaction to positive data was to sell, then buyers came in on the dip, and the net result is actually higher.
-
The global oil industry: How the oil majors are adapting to a new era
Lucy Wallwork Natural ResourcesIn 1998, the Asian economic crisis plunged the world closer and closer toward global crisis. Benchmark oil prices soon plunged from $24 to $12. The future of the industry looked gloomy. This transformation in the oil price environment sparked the most comprehensive reshaping and restructuring of the oil and gas industry since trust-busting Theodore Roosevelt broke up Standard Oil in 1911.
-
Metals Thoughts: All night long
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesGold has held up surprisingly well in spite of a crude and equity rally. Funds are putting on bullish structures, and the ETF builds are continuing at a historic rate and are threatening one-year highs.
-
Russia and Saudi Arabia’s oil deal: Tactics, strategy or the end…
Lucy Wallwork Natural ResourcesImagine, if you will, a fantasy world free from the meddling of anti-trust agencies. The titans of the smartphone world — Apple and Samsung — meet in a Silicon Valley board room to strike a historic price-fixing deal amid a cycle of depressed smartphone prices.
-
Metals Thoughts: Don’t call it a comeback
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesIn what has likely been the most exciting week for metals since 2013, gold has traded up as much as 5.2 percent and right back down again — all over the course of three effective trading days.
-
Accident prevention: What’s it going to take?
Michael S. Haro, Ph.D. Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe news media are consumed with critical incidents in the workplace. Before these incidents are thoroughly investigated and reported on, media outlets jump in, aiding and abetting emotional aspects that incite and seemly encourage an outpouring of negative behaviors.
-
Metals Thoughts: Fat Tuesday
Brad Yates Natural ResourcesOver the last week, gold and silver are up $60 and $1.10, respectively, and have blown through most every technical level you could ask for. The next major resistance is both a major psych level and the long-term down trend that started in 2014.
All Natural Resources Articles