Everything is overshadowed by geopolitical events. Tech stocks appear resilient in their financial performance, yet we're struggling to attain that in the stock performance.
Quotes about geopolitical (16 Quotes)
Today's exceptionally tight market gives marginal producers unprecedented power and greater geopolitical importance. They have the ability to press. They have leverage.
Geopolitical power is moving from energy consuming countries to the producers. We may see more of these supply shocks in the years ahead.
Lower inflation at the start of the year suggests that South Africa will be able to take geopolitical risks in its stride. At this point, even the rise in oil is not a huge concern.
In its largest sense, in the geopolitical sense, the agreement today removes a basic irritant in the relations between India and the United States over the last 30 years.
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Oil Gas was the only sub-component to decline last month. Rising 'geopolitical risk premiums' for light crude oil - linked to recent unrest in Nigeria and international tensions over Iran's decision to resume nuclear research - were more than offset by sharply lower natural gas and propane prices - the result of exceptionally warm winter weather in key U. S. heating oil markets. A foiled late-February terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has bolstered the risk premium in oil prices.
The engagement with China is in our geopolitical interests. Bringing the Chinese into the fold will give us more influence over them, and if in fact the bilateral agreement is implemented, will give us access to marketing toys in China. There are 300 million children in China, and there's a growing middle class.
The news of an attack on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia is just an example of the many different geopolitical events that underpin the secular gold bull market.
Oil prices have consolidated in the upper 60s. There's a balance between the supportive geopolitical concerns respecting Nigeria and Iran, verses the bearish influence of excess crude supplies and warm U. S. winter weather.
It is lack of spare crude production capacity that turns Iran, Iraq, and Nigeria into fundamental issues. Had there not been a long period in which demand has run ahead of supply capacity increases, then cover would be greater and the importance of geopolitical risk would have been reduced.
The market will move back and forth in the weeks ahead. There is bad geopolitical news at the same time we are looking at high inventories.
Environmentalist radicals see doom ahead. But even the suits of Big Oil agree on the underlying facts Simply put, the era of easy access to energy is over, ... We are experiencing the convergence of geological difficulty with geopolitical instability. . . . The time when we could count on cheap oil and even cheaper natural gas is clearly ending.
Relatively moderate weather, ample supplies and an escalation in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program should make for another week of high volatility. Absent geopolitical uncertainty, prices should be moving lower.
We've had a tug of war between fundamentals and geopolitical worries. It doesn't look like Iran will take any action soon, so the attention of the market is tilting to the inventories. There's a surfeit of oil available on the world market.
Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.