OPINION/EDITORIAL

Frontier Market Borrowing Binge

November 18, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Rock bottom global interest rates have been a boon for so-called frontier-market countries, which have been able to borrow cheaply to finance their development needs. But there can be too much of a good thing: countries that don’t put the money to good use may […]

Why Isn’t Winter Pushing LNG Prices Higher?

November 15, 2019/OilPrice.com Spot LNG prices in Asia-Pacific are hovering around the $6/MMBtu level at a time when seasonal winter demand usually pushes them higher. The reason is not hard to see – excess liquefaction capacity coming on-stream in the US, compounding the build-up of capacity in recent years in […]

Oil Markets Ignore Worrying OPEC Projections

November 15, 2019/OilPrice.com Both OPEC and the IEA released key reports this week, both of which pointed to some major worries for the oil cartel, yet oil markets seem not to have noticed. Friday, November 15th, 2019 It was a big week for oil market data and projections this week, […]