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...After an early move higher, the S&P 500 swung into negative territory during late-morning trade and finished down 0.7 per cent from Thursday’s record closing high....
...US stocks finished higher on Tuesday, with Wall Street’s S&P 500 climbing 1.1 per cent to a record-high close and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite gaining 1.5 per cent....
...“They’re taking bets on different things,” said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
...“I would say they probably represent the best opportunity to ramp up by inventory with a deal with a private,” said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
...“Everyone built out the pipeline infrastructure for the shale revolution,” said Raoul LeBlanc, vice-president of North American upstream at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...“Oxy put itself in a good position by getting bigger at the right time,” said Raoul LeBlanc, vice-president for upstream oil and gas at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...I am somewhat surprised by this and ask Doctor P if he witnessed this himself. “The man just has a heart of gold, helping people.”...
...Or as Raoul LeBlanc, a vice-president at S&P Global Commodities Insights, told Myles: “Everyone built out the pipeline infrastructure for the shale revolution....
...“Investors have stopped valuing the long term for oil and gas producers, so their market value is quite low,” said Raoul LeBlanc, vice-president of upstream at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Somehow, the S&P 500 sub-index of oil and gas stocks is down only 1 per cent over the same period....
...at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Raoul LeBlanc, vice-president at S&P Global Commodities Insights, said inflation for US oil producers was running at about 15 per cent this year and could rise to 25-30 per cent next year if companies try...
...“It’s a tsunami of cash,” said Raoul LeBlanc, head of S&P’s North American oil and gas division. “The companies have almost finished the balance sheet repair.”...
...Oilfield services companies are “healing from their near-death experience in 2020”, said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
...And they have the cash to do it,” said Raoul LeBlanc, vice-president of upstream at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...It was a response, coupled with the large foreign exchange hit, that left some investors “miffed”, according to Diane Jaffee, TCW senior portfolio manager....
...It has also posted lower returns than the broader S&P 500 stock index over that period....
...“The pivot is complete in terms of them worrying about more persistent and problematic inflation,’‘ said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton....
...The S&P 500 is up more than 15 per cent this year, while the FTSE all world index has gained slightly more than 12 per cent....
...Diane Coyle: The UK is in a structural hole, not a cyclical downturn....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 index rose 0.2 per cent to close at a new record high, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.1 per cent....
...Recent transactions included sales by Bruin E&P, a PE-backed company that went bankrupt in July, and Grenadier Energy Partners II, backed by EnCap and Kayne Anderson, two big private oil industry investors...
...Wall Street reacted by dumping its stocks, making the sector one of the S&P 500’s smallest....
...Shares in more than 80 per cent of the companies in the S&P 500 fell on the first trading day of the new year, with the Wall Street benchmark closing 1.5 per cent lower....
...“Improving financial capability can be transformative for individuals and families,” says Diane Maxwell, former lead of New Zealand’s state-backed financial capability drive....
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