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Wells Fargo’s mortgage volume fell in consecutive three-month periods during the fourth quarter, but its mortgage banking income increased.View the original article h...
Released: April 10, 2013Next Release: April 17, 2013The U.S. average retail price for a gallon of regular gasoline has fallen for six consecutive weeks since hitting its 2013 year-to-date peak of $3.78 per gallon in late February. Early in 2013, increasing crude oil prices and strong seasonal crack spreads led to an increase in retail gasoline prices. However,...
Released: April 3, 2013Next Release: April 10, 2013The differential between West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and North Dakota's Bakken crudes continues to fluctuate, reflecting both production growth and changes in oil transportation capacity. Bakken crude sold at a $25-per-barrel discount to WTI in early 2012 and rose to a $5-per-barrel premium last September, before...
Released: April 17, 2013Next Release: April 24, 2013In late 2012, the difference between the U.S. average retail prices for premium gasoline and regular gasoline reached 30 cents per gallon for the first time, a level at which it has remained for most of 2013 (Figure 1). Since 2000, the spread has climbed steadily, increasing from an average of 18 cents per gallon...
Released: March 27, 2013Next Release: April 3, 2013Despite recent national attention on rising domestic production of light sweet crude oil, especially from tight oil formations in North Dakota, some Midwest refiners are reconfiguring their facilities to process more heavy crude oil, which will likely come from Canada.The refinery coking capacity in PAD District...
Released: April 17, 2013Next Release: April 24, 2013In late 2012, the difference between the U.S. average retail prices for premium gasoline and regular gasoline reached 30 cents per gallon for the first time, a level at which it has remained for most of 2013 (Figure 1). Since 2000, the spread has climbed steadily, increasing from an average of 18 cents per gallon...
Investors can certainly make good money investing in well-run personal care companies with solid brands. Along those lines, names like Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL), Unilever (NYSE:UN), and Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) have all delivered very strong capital gains over the past year. In the case of Kimberly-Clark in particular, though, I do worry that this consumer staples melt-up has gone a little too far. I do like the...
For better or worse, Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) is a stock that will give investors multiple second chances. Although this company is regarded as the best of the oil services companies, the ups and downs of the energy market (and the resulting impacts on exploration, drilling, and production activity) lead to wide swings in operating performance and the stock price. With surprisingly solid margins, signs of improvement in North American activity, and...
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