Asian Fixed Income/Frontier Market Research

Bondcritic

Bondcritic, established in 2009, is designed to be an independent credit research voice that helps investors gain insights and unbiased analyses on Asian fixed income market. Our mission is to discover deep-value Asian high-yield and distressed bonds with a bottom-up approach, together with the help of our proprietary ESG (Environmental, Social Development, and Governance) model. At the same time, we focus on bringing investment cases of unrated and unloved issuers to the general public.

Commodities Trading - Credit Risk

Alan Chong

Commodities

Executive SummaryCrude oil prices hit a 1-year high on 23-April afer a period of rangebound trading. WTI futures closed at USD68.64/bbl and Brent futures closed at USD75.17/bbl on 30-April, according to CNBC. We think that chances for crude prices to slip below USD40/bbl are slim, given (1) a stronger world economy, (2) ongoing production cuts from OPEC countries as well as Russia and (3) a technically-resilient support price level near USD43/bbl We also think crude prices would not go beyond…

Executive SummaryCrude oil prices hit a 1-year high on 23-April afer a period of rangebound trading. WTI futures closed at USD68.64/bbl and Brent futures closed at USD75.17/bbl on 30-April, according to CNBC. We think that chances for crude prices to slip below USD40/bbl are slim, given (1) a stronger world economy, (2) ongoing production cuts from OPEC countries as well as Russia and (3) a technically-resilient support price level near USD43/bbl We also think crude prices would not go beyond…

Crude Oil

Commodity Critic: The Oil Is Hot