After all these long months of posturing and public vows, the flushing out of positions and back channel negotiations, the efforts to underpin a higher equilibrium in oil prices has
Oil prices remain under pressure today after Friday’s sharp selloff as doubts continue to linger over Saudi oil policy in the wake of the remarks by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince
Oil prices are reeling in the wake of the bombshell assertions reportedly made by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the Kingdom will not continue to participate in
The resignation of Iraqi oil minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi will not have any impact on the April 17 meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC oil ministers in Doha to ratify and broaden
Three essential points to clarify the politics of the efforts to broaden the oil output freeze in the wake of the meeting in Tehran between Russian oil minister Alexander Novak
The volatility in oil prices in the wake of the way Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi’s remarks in Houston at the annual IHS CERAWeek conference have been reported warrants a
The single most important takeaway in this morning’s news from Doha that Saudi Arabia and Russia have agreed to a provisional oil output “freeze” is that both countries have come
We take the news of a possible visit in March to Moscow by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud very seriously, as potentially marking the culmination of
For all the trial balloons that were being floated through recent days, mostly by lower level oil officials around the globe talking up the prospects of an OPEC meeting and
With today’s modest upward turn in crude prices, there are indications Saudi policymakers are eyeing ways to lend support to stabilizing oil prices, sensing a near bottom to the renewed
Ever since Riyadh’s decision earlier this month to execute Nimr al-Nimr, a Shia cleric who was a Saudi national, the intense rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran for regional dominance
We wanted to briefly comment on the recent spate of market research notes amid chatter that Saudi Arabia may be forced to devalue the riyal by adjusting its currency peg
The first thing that has to be said on the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz is how quickly the succession of the Saudi throne has been
After chopping around for over three and a half years between $100 and $120 a barrel, with an occasional spike or two above, oil markets suddenly broke down two months
The recent letter from Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the head of Saudi intelligence and former longstanding Saudi ambassador to Washington who has spearheaded the Kingdom’s hard line towards Syria, in
