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Bulls And Bears Of The Week: Apple, GE, Walmart, Wells Fargo And More

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included coronavirus picks and a homebuilder.Bearish calls included a top bank, a top retailer and a cannabis stock.In another volatile week in the markets, the Dow Jones industrials managed to end marginally higher, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed essentially flat. The headlines were dominated by the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, but the week also saw the Treasury bond yield fall to record lows and a surprise rate cut from the Federal Reserve.A venerated former CEO passed away and another top chief …read more […]

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Saudi Aramco Slashes Crude Prices, Kicking Off Price War

(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia kick started an all-in oil price war on Saturday, slashing the official selling prices for its flagship crude Arab Light by the most in 20 years, in an effort to push as many barrels into the market as possible.The cut by Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company, came after the collapse of the OPEC+ talks a day earlier, ending the cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Russia that has underpinned oil prices since 2016.The state producer lowered April pricing for crude oil sales to Asia by $4-$6 a barrel to Asia and to the U.S. by $7 …read more […]

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Putin Dumps MBS to Start a War on America’s Shale Oil Industry

(Bloomberg) — At 10:16 a.m. on a wet and dreary Friday morning, Russia’s energy minister walked into OPEC’s headquarters in central Vienna knowing his boss was ready to turn the global oil market upside down.Alexander Novak told his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman that Russia was unwilling to cut oil production further. The Kremlin had decided that propping up prices as the coronavirus ravaged energy demand would be a gift to the U.S. shale industry. The frackers had added millions of barrels of oil to the global market while Russian companies kept wells idle. Now it was time …read more […]