Saudi Aramco (TADAWUL:2222), the world’s largest oil company, announced on Tuesday that it expects to declare $85.4 billion in total dividends in 2025, a notable decrease from the $124.25 billion distributed in 2024. Financial Performance: Declining Profitability in 2024 The oil giant reported a 12.4% drop in full-year 2024 net …
Read More »Aramco’s Q3 Profit Declines, but Dividends Remain Strong Amid Softer Oil Prices
Saudi oil giant Aramco (TADAWUL:2222) reported a 15.4% year-over-year decline in its third-quarter profits, attributing the drop to lower crude prices and weaker refining margins. However, Aramco reaffirmed its commitment to a substantial dividend, maintaining a $31.1 billion payout for the quarter. Profit Performance and Market Reaction For the quarter …
Read More »Anti-OPEC Trend Could Shock Oil Markets
As early as the beginning of 2022, the-then Italian PM Mario Draghi suggested a dangerous idea that large oil buyers could form a new club or sort of forum together and challenge OPEC+. The idea did not take further steps into reality because one obvious problem could not be ignored, …
Read More »Aramco’s Profit Jumps 90 Percent On Higher Crude Prices
The giant Saudi oil producer said it earned nearly $50 billion last quarter, the latest energy company to record outsize profits after the surge in crude prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.Aramco announced that its second-quarter profit jumped 90 percent over the same period a year ago, reaching …
Read More »Weekly Recap – 11-15 April
The euro plunged to a two-year low against the dollar on Thursday, as comments by European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde were taken as a sign that the bank will not be in a rush to raise interest rates. The euro fell to $1.0758, its lowest since April 2020. Lagarde …
Read More »Weekly Recap – 28 March – 1 April
The dollar rose on Friday after a report showed strong US job growth in March. In addition, the unemployment rate fell to a two-year low, and wages rebounded, boosting speculation that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by 50 points at its meeting. Next. The widely watched US Labor …
Read More »The price of gold fell one percent as the dollar rose
Gold prices fell more than one percent on Monday after the US dollar rose. Treasury yields settled near multi-month highs as investors focused on potential peace talks between Russia and Ukraine dented gold’s safe-haven appeal. Spot gold prices fell 1.2 percent to $1,934.61. US gold futures fell one percent to …
Read More »Weekly Recap – 21-25 March
Geopolitics continued to impact the economic outlook throughout the previous week. Christine Lagarde emphasized the punitive measures were designed to target the regime, not the Russian people, while new “fiscal remedies are still needed” to stabilize Europe’s economy.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February has fundamentally brought about deep economic …
Read More »Gold Set For Solid Weekly Gains Despite Higher Yields
Gold (XAU/USD) prices have seen indecisive, two-way price action in recent trade, swinging between the mid-$1940s and $1960s. A sharp rally in US yields to fresh multi-year highs to reflect an upping of hawkish Fed bets as market participants reacted to a chorus of major US banks issues hawkish new …
Read More »Aramco Oil Facility In Jeddah Hit By Houthi Missile
A Saudi Aramco oil facility located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was hit by a missile launched by Yemen’s rebel Houthi militia on Friday, reports on social media suggested. A Yemeni Houthi spokesperson later said that the group would be announcing more details on a wide operation in Saudi Arabia later …
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