Research and News

Crude oil price has ended the year on a very high note. WTI and Brent benchmarks have got to 2015 maximum levels ($62.5 for WTI and almost $70 for Brent). Technically it looks supported by breaking through key resistance. Brent surpassed its resistance e...

18 January 2018, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Crude oil market in November had been trading in anticipation of successful Nov-30 OPEC/non-OPEC meeting. It went as anticipated and the price reacted quite well given already overloading situation with long positions in crude oil futures. Some correctio...

11 December 2017, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Crude oil market climbed higher in October following some consolidation in the beginning of the month. Brent even closed the month above $60 per barrel, WTI got to its technical level $55 per barrel (upper channel trend). Some correction after the rally ...

17 November 2017, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Crude oil price broke through strong resistance in September and occupied higher levels (above $50 per bbl for WTI benchmark and above $55 per bbl for Brent). Unusually active hurricane season in Gulf of Mexico limited upside for U.S. oil popular benchma...

13 October 2017, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Crude oil market is trading in very narrow range again in anticipation of stocks rebalancing. Long awaited crude oil storage levels drawdown have been finally happening for several weeks in the USA and it stimulated return of hedge funds long positions t...

14 September 2017, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Crude oil market is trading in anticipation of OPEC meeting on May 25. There has been so much talking from OPEC about probable extension of the deal that it is possibly already priced in by the market, at least base-case scenario with higher production c...

22 May 2017, Arbat Capital

oil, investment, equity

Crude oil market was trading in a narrow range above $50 per bbl in January. It looks like this period of low volatility will come to the end soon and risks are skewed to the downside.

08 February 2017, Arbat Capital

Implementation of the deal and new promises from Saudi Arabia will be important for the price to stay above this floor. Following the agreement, OPEC had to cut its production from January 1. The price is high and only traders’ mistrust in OPEC promises ...

18 January 2017, Arbat Capital

oil

In November 2016 the crude oil market returned to above $50 per bbl levels on agreement among OPEC members to cut production in the first half of 2017 to a target of about 32.7 mln bbl / d. The deal was made possible by Saudi Arabia’s willingness to supp...

30 December 2016, Arbat Capital