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Saudi non-oil activity growth slows in May, PMI reveals
Growth in nonoil service activity in Saudi Arabia alleviated in May as brand-new orders rose at the slowest rate in 25 months, a survey showed on Tuesday. The seasonally-adjusted Riyad Bank Saudi Arabia Acquiring Supervisors' Index fell to 56.4 in May, from 57.0 the previous month, and was the 2nd lowest reading in 22 months. A reading above 50 marks growth in activity. The output sub index slipped to 60.1, its lowest level considering that January and down from 61.9 in April, although it stayed securely in expansion mode, with development supported by demand and the conclusion of pending orders. The sub index for brand-new orders hit its least expensive level in simply over 2 years at 59.5, down from 61.0 in April, with slowing market conditions and increased competitors pointed out as factors for the deceleration. General numbers, however, continue to suggest strong demand for non-oil sectors which are a top priority as the kingdom weans itself off an oil reliance and has actually sped up policies to drive investment into tourist and construction and broaden the private sector. Nevertheless, the surge in need has actually also led to price pressures affecting input prices and personnel expenses, although the increase in output rates has actually been observed at a slower pace, stated Naif Al-Ghaith, Riyad Bank's chief economic expert. This balancing act reflects the obstacles faced by companies in managing costs while trying to profit from the broadening market, he added. Self-confidence amongst businesses about the 12-month company outlook dropped in May to the weakest level because January.
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China's MMG prepares to raise $1.16 bln to repay debt, fund mine advancement
China's MMG said on Tuesday it plans to raise about HK$ 9.08 billion ($ 1.16 billion) through a rights concern to repay existing debt, enabling the Hong Konglisted company to better assistance the ongoing development of its operating mines. The deal is the biggest such offering in Hong Kong for more than a year after Link REIT raised $2.4 billion in March 2023, according to Dealogic data. It is the third largest rights problem in the city in 5 years, the data revealed. The issue of 3.47 billion shares will be based on two rights shares for each five shares held at a membership cost of HK$ 2.62 apiece, MMG stated in an exchange filing. The subscription cost is at a discount rate of about 31.41% to MMG's last closing rate of HK$ 3.82 on Friday. Individually, coal miner Yankuang Energy Group stated it had actually raised HK$ 4.96 billion by offering 285 million shares at HK$ 17.39 apiece to repay its existing financial obligation. Hong Kong-listed shares of Yankuang Energy fell 9.5% and were on course for their most significant intraday drop in 11 months. MMG shares dropped as much as 11.3% to a two-month low after resuming trade.
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Base metals largely acquire on rate cut hopes
Rates of nonferrous metals mainly increased on Tuesday, supported by a softer dollar and potential customers of rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange increased 0.7% to $10,210.50 per metric load by 0221 GMT, while the most-traded July copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange advanced 0.8% to 82,350 yuan ($ 11,365.52) a. lot. The dollar suffered at its least expensive given that April against the. euro and sterling on Tuesday as indications of a softening U.S. economy boosted the case for earlier Federal Reserve interest. rate cuts. A weaker dollar makes greenback-priced metals less expensive to. holders of other currencies. Rate cuts typically help with. financial activities and metals' physical consumption. Bullish bets on copper's use worldwide transition into. a greener economy along with its shortage have actually sustained rates to. record highs last month, but the rally in futures prices has. paused as physical need has been moistened. The normal premium to import copper into top consumer China. stayed at discount rate, showing weak need. The net long positioning of COMEX copper reached the. greatest because February 2021 on May 21, however it has actually trimmed. somewhat by May 28, the most recent exchange information revealed. LME aluminium increased 0.7% to $2,680 a lot, nickel. innovative 0.5% to $19,515, zinc climbed up 1% to. $ 2,972, lead was up 0.4% at $2,296, and tin. edged up 0.6% at $32,550. SHFE aluminium increased 0.4% to 21,370 yuan a lot,. zinc edged up 0.1% at 24,475 yuan, lead. climbed up 1.5% to 19,070 yuan, while nickel dropped 1.7%. to 146,930 yuan, and tin shed 1.3% to 268,090 yuan. For the leading stories in metals and other news, click. or DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 0755 Germany Joblessness Chg, Rate SA May 0830 UK Reserve Assets Total May 1400 United States Factory Orders MM April
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VEGOILS-Palm oil falls more than 3% on weaker Dalian contracts and petroleum
Malaysian palm oil futures fell over 3% on Tuesday as trading resumed after a. public holiday, with weakness in rival Dalian agreements and. crude oil costs weighing on the market. The benchmark palm oil contract for August shipment. on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange dropped 136 ringgit,. or 3.34%, to 3,940 ringgit ($ 839.73) per metric lot in early. trade. The contract acquired 5% recently. PRINCIPLES * Dalian's most-active soyoil contract fell 1.45%,. while its palm oil agreement lost 2.03%. Soyoil rates. on the Chicago Board of Trade were up 0.32%. * Palm oil is affected by price movements in related oils as. they compete for a share in the global veggie oils market. * Oil rates alleviated in early trade, extending their losses. from the previous session when rates was up to their least expensive in. 4 months, as financiers worried about supply ticking up later on. in the year. * At 0243 GMT, Brent crude futures were down 53. cents, or 0.68%, to $77.83 a barrel. * Weaker petroleum futures make palm a less appealing. option for biodiesel feedstock. * The ringgit, palm's currency of trade, strengthened. 0.26% against the dollar, making the commodity more pricey. for purchasers holding the foreign currency. * There will be no day-to-day reports from markets. analyst Wang Tao during June 4-17. Regular reports will resume. on June 18. MARKET NEWS * Asian share markets were slightly weaker as worldwide investors. consider the possibility the U.S. economy's 'exceptionalism' is. starting to unwind as production activity in the world's. biggest economy even more damaged. DATA/EVENTS 0755 Germany Joblessness Chg, Rate SA May 0830 UK Reserve Assets Overall May 1400 United States Factory Orders MM April
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Asian shares pull back as investors question US economic strength
Asian share markets were slightly weaker on Tuesday as global financiers consider the possibility the U.S. economy's 'exceptionalism' is beginning to relax as production activity in the world's largest economy further damaged. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.1%, after U.S. stocks ended the previous session with moderate gains. The index is up 1.6% so far this month. Australian shares were down 0.21%, while Japan's. Nikkei stock index slid 0.77%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was flat in early trade. and China's CSI300 Index off 0.16%. The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes. reached 4.4001% compared with its U.S. close of 4.402% on. Monday. The two-year yield, which rises with traders'. expectations of greater Fed fund rates, touched 4.8184% compared. with a U.S. close of 4.818%. On Monday, U.S. Treasury yields was up to the most affordable point in. 2 weeks, after the country's manufacturing activity slipped. for the second successive month in May. The 2-year yield was 6 basis points lower while the 10-year. yield was down 11 basis points. The sharper move at the long-end is a sign that weaker. making data is not likely to move the dial on Fed rate. cuts near term, but is possibly a signal of the marketplace's view of. neutral rate of interest as United States economic exceptionalism fades,. Westpac financial expert Jameson Coombs said in a note on Tuesday. There was now 40 basis points of rate cuts by the end of. 2024 priced into financial markets expectations, he included. In Europe, investors anticipate the European Reserve bank on. Thursday to cut the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 index edged up 0.1%, the. Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.3%, and the Nasdaq. Composite increased 0.6%. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anticipated to win a. record-equalling 3rd successive term in office on Tuesday. when the 642 million votes cast on the planet's biggest election. are counted. The result is expected to be favorable for the country's. monetary markets, according to analysts, on the hope India will. under more economic reform. The dollar increased 0.16% versus the yen to 156.35 in. Asian trading on Tuesday. It is still some range from its. high this year of 160.03 in late April. The European single currency was up 0.1% on the day. at $1.0912, having gotten 0.65% in a month, while the dollar. index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of. currencies of other major trading partners, was down at 104. U.S. unrefined dipped 0.42% to $73.91 a barrel. Brent. crude fell to $78.05 per barrel. Both standards moved to. four-month lows on Monday after the Organization of the. Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, together referred to as. OPEC+, agreed to start relaxing some production cuts from. October. Most commodity experts had anticipated the production cuts to. be preserved till completion of the year, NAB economists stated. Gold was slightly greater. Area gold was traded at. $ 2350.7266 per ounce.
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China courts Spain to push EU on electrical lorry probe
China hopes Spain will press the European Union to support and motivate the new energy industry to deepen cooperation and produce a fair and predictable development environment, according to its commerce ministry. In remarks targeted at addressing the EU's probe into China's. electrical vehicles sector, Minister Wang Wentao emphasised the. need to safeguard international joint efforts to fight environment modification. and the China-EU extensive tactical partnership. China hoped Spain would encourage the EU to maintain an open. mindset in the field of green and brand-new energy, he stated. The EU's. examination into China's EV market totaled up to. protectionism, he added. Last October, the European Union Commission launched an. investigation into whether to impose punitive tariffs to secure. EU producers against more affordable Chinese electric vehicle imports it. says are getting distortive state aids. It recently said it would postpone a choice till after. the European Parliament election on June 9. China has consistently rebuked the EU for its probe. At a meeting on Monday with the Spanish ministers for. economy and industry in Madrid, Wang stated China was willing to. deal with Spain to increase trade, promote two-way investments. and expand cooperation. In a separate statement, the Chinese ministry likewise said it. had established a coordination mechanism for foreign-funded. enterprises to express their difficulties about working. in China. It gave no details. European firms that rank China as a top financial investment. destination hit a record low, the European Union Chamber of. Commerce in China said last month, associating the sentiment to. China's ailing economy and less predictable policy instructions.
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US oil futures draw restored interest from hedge funds: Kemp
Portfolio investors purchased petroleum agreements for the first time in seven weeks as traders squared up short positions ahead of a meeting of OPEC? ministers to decide production policy in the 2nd half of 2024. Hedge funds and other money supervisors bought the equivalent of 21 million barrels in the 6 most important futures and alternatives agreements over the 7 days ending on May 28. The purchases were the first after 6 weeks of sales totalling 304 million barrels since April 9, according to records released by ICE Futures Europe and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Most of the purchases originated from closing out previous bearish short positions (+16 million barrels) instead of developing new bullish long ones (+6 million). Even after short covering, the combined position was simply 402 million barrels (19th percentile for all weeks because 2013). while bullish longs outnumbered bearish shorts by 2.51:1 (24th. percentile). Fund supervisors remained sceptical about the possibility of. price increases, even with costs near to the long-term average. and OPEC? ministers signalling they would prolong production. restraint (agreed five days later on). In the most current week, buying was heavily focused in. NYMEX and ICE WTI (+32 million barrels) with little purchases in. Brent (+2 million) and U.S. diesel (+2 million). There were sales in both U.S. fuel (-5 million barrels). and European gas oil (-9 million). Chartbook: Oil and gas positions Fund supervisors continued to turn far from the Brent. worldwide unrefined criteria and towards the WTI U.S. local. marker. Funds have acquired 89 million barrels of WTI in the most. recent three weeks while selling 173 million barrels of Brent in. the last 4. A few of this rotation has actually shown evaporation of the. previous war-risk premium in Brent, as the conflict between. Israel, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis has actually been. contained. However the increased bullishness around WTI could likewise be an. indication of an upcoming capture on deliverable supplies. around the contract's shipment area at Cushing in Oklahoma. Industrial unrefined inventories at Cushing diminished by nearly 2. million barrels over the seven days ending on May 24, the. biggest drawdown for 17 weeks. Cushing stocks were 11 million barrels (-25% or -0.76. basic deviations) below the prior 10-year seasonal average. Even a couple of weeks of exhaustions could leave deliverable. products incredibly low and make the agreement vulnerable to. another capture. U.S. GAS Fund managers have become progressively more bullish about. the outlook for U.S. gas costs, expecting that strong need. from gas-fired generators and the reboot of LNG export. facilities will get rid of excess inventories. Funds acquired the equivalent of 316 billion cubic feet. ( bcf) in the 2 major contracts linked to prices at Henry Center. in Louisiana over the seven days ending on May 28. Funds have been net buyers in 5 of the current six weeks,. buying an overall of 1,365 bcf given that April 16. The fund community held a net long position of 881 bcf (53rd. percentile for all weeks since 2010) up from a net short of. 1,675 bcf (3rd percentile) in mid February and the most bullish. position since the end of October 2023. U.S. working gas stocks were still 616 bcf (+28% or. +1.43 basic deviations) above the previous 10-year average on. May 24. However the surplus has actually been broadly steady and even narrowed. slightly given that the middle of March, implying production,. consumption and exports are now near balance after big. surpluses in 2023 and early 2024. If production begins to decrease, following drilling cuts. revealed in February, or usage increases much faster, acquired. stocks are most likely to diminish over the next 9 months,. which has begun to draw funds back into the marketplace. Related columns: - Oil market torpor sends investors to other commodities( May. 30, 2024) - Financiers abandon bullish case for United States gas( May 15,. 2024) - Formerly bullish investors discard oil as need. disappoints( May 13, 2024) - Eco-friendly fuels take bite out of U.S. diesel. intake( May 10, 2024) John Kemp is a market analyst. The views expressed. are his own. Follow his commentary on X https://twitter.com/JKempEnergy.
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Oil rates extend losses on concerns of supply rising later in 2024
Oil prices reduced in early trade on Tuesday, extending their losses from the previous session when rates fell to their lowest in four months, as financiers stressed about supply ticking up later in the year. Brent unrefined futures fell 20 cents or 0.3 % $78.16 a barrel. Brent closed below $80 for the very first time because Feb. 7, after falling more than 3% on Monday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures eased 17 cents, or 0.2% to $74.05. It had actually also settled near a four-month short on Monday after sliding 3.6%. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, together referred to as OPEC+, on Sunday agreed to extend most of their oil output cuts into 2025 but left room for voluntary cuts from 8 members to be gradually unwound from October onward. The extension of voluntary cuts through the third quarter stands to magnify summertime tightness in crude, while the possibility of some supply coming back from October represents a. stronger indication that extreme levels of market support by. OPEC+ might not last forever, said Walt Chancellor, an energy. strategist at Macquarie. Indications of weakening need growth have also weighed on oil. prices in recent months, with data on U.S. fuel consumption in. focus. The average gasoline cost in the United States decreased. 5.8 cents per gallon to $3.50 per gallon on Monday, according to. GasBuddy data. The U.S. government will launch stock and item. provided information on Wednesday. Item supplied, considered a proxy. for need, will show how much gasoline was consumed around the. Memorial Day weekend, the start to the U.S. driving season.
Energy Transfer broadens Permian presence with $3.25 bln WTG Midstream purchase
Energy Transfer said on Tuesday it would purchase WTG Midstream Holdings in an offer valued at about $3.25 billion, the latest acquisition in the midstream sector aimed at broadening transportation and processing network in the Permian Basin.
Dealmaking in the pipeline sector has actually been getting lately as some companies look to cut expenses, while others seek to scale and access to appealing oil and gas producing areas such as the Permian basin and export facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The WTG offer, anticipated to close in the 3rd quarter of 2024, will make up $2.45 billion in cash and about 50.8 million recently released Energy Transfer shares.
Energy Transfer will acquire WTG from affiliates of Stonepeak, the Davis Estate, and Diamondback Energy. Upon closing, Diamondback, which holds a 25% stake in WTG, stands to get about $375 million.
WTG's possessions include a 6,000-mile pipeline network that serves the Midland Basin, 8 processing plants with a total capability of 1.3 billion cubic feet each day, and 2 new plants that are under building.
As Permian (natural gas liquids) production continues to surprise to the advantage, we would expect considerable commercial synergies in time, Raymond James analysts said in a note.
We see the Delaware (basin) as a bit more fragmented than the Midland, though an offer of WTG's scale reveals that the Midland might still see deals at the corporate scale.
The acquisition likewise consists of a 20% interest in the BANGL Pipeline, a roughly 425-mile gas pipeline connecting the Permian Basin to markets on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Energy Transfer is aiming to build a deepwater port along the Texas coast and anticipates to get a draft environmental impact declaration for its overseas terminal this quarter.
In 2015, the business likewise bought Crestwood Equity Partners for $7.1 billion, Lotus Midstream for $1.45 billion, while its affiliate, Dallas-based Sunoco, obtained NuStar Energy in a $7.3 billion offer.