Back to backwardation for crude
February 12, 2024 By Mark Rachal
This week, Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions explains why fundamentals are not the only factors impacting commodities trading.
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Propane market reaches normalization
February 5, 2024 By Mark Rachal
Despite the recent decline in inventories and the rise in prices, the propane market simply has gone from abnormally bearish to more normalized.
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Propane is a cheap Btu
October 30, 2023 By Mark Rachal
Cost Management Solutions’ Mark Rachal, director of research and publications, discusses propane’s relative value to crude and inventory options this winter.
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Potential end-of-winter inventory positions
October 23, 2023 By Mark Rachal
This Trader’s Corner reviews end-of-winter inventory positions since 2015 and evaluates possibilities for inventory at the end of winter 2023-24.
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Potentially weak winter demand
September 18, 2023 By Mark Rachal
In this week’s Trader’s Corner, Mark Rachal, director of research and publications for Cost Management Solutions, discusses propane demand for the upcoming winter.
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Revisiting the state of crude prices
September 11, 2023 By Mark Rachal
Mark Rachal, director of research and publications with Cost Management Solutions, revisits the current state of crude prices through 2024.
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Part II: Evaluating the state of crude prices
July 17, 2023 By Mark Rachal
The growing strength in crude’s price is a threat to propane retailers trying to hedge against higher prices this winter.
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Evaluating the state of crude prices
July 10, 2023 By Mark Rachal
If crude prices stay where they are or trend higher, it won’t take much improvement in the propane fundamental picture to see a rapid rise in propane’s price.
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Propane inventory possibilities to start the winter
June 26, 2023 By Mark Rachal
Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions looks at the high, low and average propane inventory builds from this point in the year to the first week of October.
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Propane prices point to buying opportunity
June 20, 2023 By Mark Rachal
The worst enemy of a good buying opportunity is the hope of a perfect buying opportunity, according to Mark Rachal of Cost Management Solutions.
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