Dow Jones stabilised at 18,000 plus points & oil price stabilised around USD $20 plus .... Great, now it’s the right time to accumulate O&G stocks and other record lowest undervalue potential good stocks !
Either we will move onto a post-apocalyptic society or the stocks will make a comeback like every other crisis before this.
If the first one was to happen, there is not much difference between wasting your money on stocks compared to anything else. Even stocking on supplies will not help you on the long run.
However, if the markets recover, like they do all the time, then you would be buying the stocks when they cheap, making you a hefty profit. But this might require a long patience, and unfortunately not many people have that.
Oil prices dropped nearly 5% on Friday and were on track for a fifth straight weekly loss as demand destruction caused by the coronavirus outweighed stimulus efforts by policymakers around the world.
Brent crude was trading 5.1% lower at $24.99 per barrel.
U.S. crude fell $1.09, or 4.8%, to settle at $21.51 per barrel.
Stocks fell sharply on Friday, giving back some of the strong gains experienced in the previous three days to cap off another volatile week on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 915.39 points, or 4.1%, to 21,636.78. The S&P 500 slid 3.4% to 2,541.47 while the Nasdaq Composite closed 3.7% lower at 7,502.38.
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Beliau telah mula bergejala 5 hari sebelum dimasukkan ke Hospital Putrajaya pada 17 Mac 2020 dan kemudiannya ke Hospital Kuala Lumpur dan Hospital Sungai Buloh. Hasil ujian pengesahan COVID-19 telah didapati positif pada 18 Mac 2020. Kesihatan beliau merosot hari demi hari, dan disahkan meninggal dunia pada 29 Mac 2020 jam 4.00 petang.
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Saudi Arabia is not backing down from the oil price war for market share, pledging another increase in its crude oil exports starting in May, despite a growing global glut amid crashing demand. “[T]he Kingdom intends to increase its crude oil exports, starting from May, by about 600 thousand barrels per day, bringing the total of Saudi petroleum exports to 10.6 million barrels per day,” an official at the Saudi Arabian Energy Ministry said on Monday, as carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Urusharta ceases to be substantial shareholder in Alam Maritim Resources Kuala Lumpur (March 30): Urusharta Jamaah Sdn Bhd, the Finance Ministry’s special purpose vehicle (SPV), has ceased to be a substantial shareholder of Alam Maritim Resources Bhd, after disposing of 4.66 million shares or a 1.29% stake in the listed company. Urusharta Jamaah emerged as a substantial shareholder of Alam Maritim on Dec 28, 2018, when it took over Lembaga Tabung Haji’s stake in the company. The SPV previously owned a total of 91.96 million Alam Maritim shares, equivalent to a 9.94% stake. According to Bursa Malaysia filings, Urusharta Jamaah had started to pare its stake since March 16. Shares in Alam Maritim closed down 0.5 sen or 11.11% at 4 sen today. Year-to-date, the stock has fallen 70%.
Oil prices could soon turn negative as the world runs out of places to store crude, analysts warn
(PUBLISHED WED, APR 1 20207:13 AM EDT)
~ The coronavirus pandemic has meant countries have effectively had to shut down, with many governments imposing draconian measures on the daily lives of billions of people.
~ It has created an unprecedented demand shock in energy markets, with storage space – both onshore and offshore – quickly running out.
~ Analysts at Goldman Sachs have warned the coronavirus shock is “extremely negative for oil prices and is sending landlocked crude prices into negative territory.”
Global oil storage could reach maximum capacity within weeks, energy analysts have told CNBC, as the coronavirus crisis dramatically reduces consumption and some of the world’s most powerful crude producers start to ramp up their output.
The coronavirus pandemic has meant countries have effectively had to shut down, with many governments imposing draconian measures on the daily lives of billions of people. It has created an unprecedented demand shock in energy markets, with storage space – both onshore and offshore – quickly running out.
At the same time, a three-year pact between OPEC and non-OPEC partners to curb oil output ended on Wednesday, paving the way for oil producers to ramp up production.
OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia has pledged to hike output to a record high.
“Refineries in many places are now losing money for every barrel they process, or they have no place to store their output of oil products,” Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB, told CNBC via email this week.
He pointed out that when refineries shut down, many oil producers have nowhere to send their crude if the refinery is also part of the logistical chain to the market.
“For land-based or land-locked oil producers, this means only one thing,” Schieldrop continued. “The local oil price or well-head price they receive very quickly goes to zero or even negative, because if they have too much oil, they must pay someone to transport it away until they have managed to shut down their production.”
Analysts at Goldman Sachs have warned the coronavirus shock is “extremely negative for oil prices and is sending landlocked crude prices into negative territory.”
The U.S. investment bank estimates that the world has around 1 billion barrels of spare storage capacity, but much of that will never be accessed “as the velocity of the current shock will breach transportations networks.”
“Indeed, given the cost of shutting down a well, a producer would be willing to pay someone to dispose of a barrel, implying negative pricing in landlocked areas,” analysts at Goldman said in a research note published Monday.
To be sure, Goldman said it expects waterborne crudes like Brent to be far more insulated from the coronavirus shock, with the international benchmark likely to stay near cash costs of $20 a barrel — albeit with temporary spikes below.
In contrast, WTI (which is landlocked and 500 miles from accessible tanker storage) is expected to be among those hardest hit, alongside WTI Midland and Western Canada Select (WCS).
Earlier this week, the price of WCS was quoted as low as $4.18 a barrel, traders told CNBC’s Brian Sullivan. That’s thought to be less than a good pint of beer in Canada.
* US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after President Donald Trump told the country to brace for a "very, very painful two weeks" amid the coronavirus pandemic. * The White House projected that the US could see 100,000 to 240,000 deaths from COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. * The losses came on the heels of the worst-ever first quarter for the Dow Jones industrial average. * Read more on Business Insider.
US stocks fell Wednesday after President Donald Trump issued a dire new warning about pain ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump told Americans to brace for a "very, very painful two weeks" during a press briefing Tuesday evening, adding "this is going to be three weeks like we've never seen before." The White House is now projecting that the US could see between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, peaking over the next two weeks. Right now, the US has 189,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, currently the largest outbreak in the world. As of April 1, 4,000 have died of coronavirus in the US.
Here's where major US indexes stood at the 4 p.m. ET market close on Wednesday: * S&P 500: 2,470.50, down 4.4% * Dow Jones industrial average: 20,943.51, down 4.4% (974 points) * Nasdaq composite: 7,360.58, down 4.4%
Investor sentiment is falling as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic is "maybe starting to hit home for people that had been hoping for better news," Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, told Markets Insider in an interview. The losses came after the Dow Jones industrial average posted its worst-ever quarterly performance on Tuesday, slipping more than 23%. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 also posted their worst monthly returns since the depth of the financial crisis in October 2008, falling 14% and 13% in March.
Pain for few months...need to kick out America shale oil from market... last time 2014 to 2016 ...cannot killed them... this time...sure more than half will bankrupt..
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