Author: Money Mechanics

In-brief analysis March 30, 2026 Natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) exports reached 3.1 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2025, growing 7% from the previous year. These fuels are primarily extracted from the natural gas stream. NGPL plant production has increased every year since 2005, driven by higher production of NGPLs and more global demand for NGPLs, especially as petrochemical feedstocks. Producers have increasingly targeted liquids-rich supply basins in recent years. Higher production of NGPLs has led to lower prices in the United States relative to global benchmarks in East Asia and the Middle East,…

In-brief analysis March 31, 2026 U.S. crude oil production grew by 3%, or 350,000 barrels per day (b/d), in 2025, setting a new annual production record of 13.6 million b/d, according to our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Production from the Lower 48 states excluding the Gulf of America (L48) accounted for 11.3 million b/d, or 83% of the total U.S. crude oil production in 2025. The rest of the production came from Federal Gulf of America (GOA) and Alaska. In 2025, the number of active rigs per month in L48 was 5% less than…

According to a new working paper by catastrophe modelling specialist Reask and specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager LGT ILS Partners, a climate-conditioned Industry Loss Warranty (ILW) strategy can materially outperform traditional static modeling approaches.The firms conducted a systematic back-test of a climate-conditioned strategy across a portfolio of 36 regional ILWs, spanning a 40-year period from 1985 to 2024. “Catastrophe models used across insurance, reinsurance, and capital markets are built around long-term stationary climatologies. They treat historical averages as a reliable guide to current and future risk,” Ian Bolliger, Principal Quantitative Engineer at Reask explained in the published case study. He…

Redfin has been recognized among the top residential real estate brokerages for the fourth year in a row! In 2025, our agents closed 50,484 transactions, totaling nearly $32 billion in sales – earning the #8 spot on the RealTrends Verified Brokerage Rankings by both sales volume and transaction count. Redfin Agents Remain The Most Productive The average Redfin agent closed more than 22 deals in 2025—nearly three times the productivity of agents at other top-10 brokerages, according to RealTrends data.  Our agents also led in sales volume, with an average agent sales volume of approximately $14 million. That’s almost double…

Executive Summary Risk assets declined sharply as geopolitics outweighed fundamentalsMacro de‑risking dominated as growth and value declined togetherBrent crude posted its largest monthly gain since the 1970sFalling 5‑year breakeven rates and rising real yields tightened financial conditionsS&P 500 Q1 EPS is forecast to grow double digits for a sixth consecutive quarterMarch marked a sharp inflection point for global markets, as geopolitical risk abruptly displaced economic resilience as the dominant driver of asset prices. After entering the month with constructive momentum, improving breadth, and rising confidence as evidenced by the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index sitting at all‑time highs, investors were forced…

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. A real estate investor who spent nearly a decade building a property portfolio from the ground up is now facing a painful dilemma: walk away from his marriage or risk unraveling years of financial progress. “I’m considering separating, but… all the properties are held jointly,” the investor laid out the situation in a recent Reddit post. The numbers make the decision even harder. With low mortgage rates around 3% and property taxes locked in, selling everything would trigger about $400,000 in capital gains…

The silver supply story is usually told in terms of geology, grades, and mine development timelines. It is less often told in terms of courtrooms. That is beginning to change. On February 27, 2026, Australia’s Federal Court handed down a ruling in the case of Davey v Northern Territory that Norton Rose Fulbright’s legal analysis immediately identified as a landmark: AU$54.7 million in compensation awarded to Traditional Owners of lands encompassing the McArthur River Mine in the Northern Territory. It is the largest native title compensation award in Australian history, and only the second time a superior court in Australia…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its inflation reportfor March on April 10th. The BLS reported the annual inflation at 3.3% for March.  But when we look at it to 2 decimal places, we 3.26%. CPI Index rose sharply from 326.785 to 330.213 Monthly Inflation for March 2026 was a massive 1.05%, up from 0.47% in February and 0.22% in March 2025.  Next release May 12th, 2026 Annual Inflation Table Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2026 2.39% 2.41% 3.26% 2025 3.00% 2.82% 2.39% 2.31% 2.35% 2.67% 2.70% 2.92% 3.01% NA 2.74% 2.68% 2024 3.09%…

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(Oil Price) – Oil prices could spike and hit again their peak Iran-war levels at nearly $120 per barrel if a full recovery of vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz takes until July, according to JP Morgan. Despite the ceasefire announced earlier this week, traffic through the critical oil chokepoint remains severely restricted and under supervision and approval by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). “The ceasefire has not reopened the Strait of Hormuz, and transit remains tightly controlled,” maritime intelligence firm Windward said on Thursday. “Transit through the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted, coordinated, and selectively enforced,” the firm said, noting that…