Merrill over Matter

The continental US made it another year without a hurricane making landfall. (Winter snow storms are another matter!) How many more years ...

The Polar Vortex winter dramatically drew down natural gas stocks as the numerous cold fronts worked their way through America.  While a dec...

Atlantic hurricane frequency - source: NOAA So far this year we have been blessed by a lack of hurricanes on the East Coast.  As the acc...

While oil prices have not done much recently total oil product inventories have been creeping upwards in America and throughout the rest of ...

Sometimes it is what doesn't happen that can make news. While todays action in the oil market is due to rising fuel inventories [zerohed...

It is fascinating how the financial markets and real world are so intertwined. Take for example, the weather. Recently reading about the hur...