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LONDON–The North Sea oil grades that underpin the global Brent crude price benchmark have been expanded to address the region’s declining production, price reporting agency S&P Global Platts announced Monday.

Oil from the Troll field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea will be added to the basket of crude used to calculate the benchmark from 2018, Platts said.

The Brent crude price, based on four physical oil streams extracted from fields in the North Sea, is what the majority of the world’s physical crude is priced off.

The existing basket used to set the price includes Brent Ninian Blend, Forties, Oseberg and Ekofisk. The addition of Troll, a field operated by Norway’s Statoil ASA
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should increase deliverable supplies by around 20%. It will also mean Statoil overtakes Royal Dutch Shell PLC
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as the most dominant producer of the streams used to calculate the Brent price.

stock market latest news: CPI Aerostructures, Inc.(CVU)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Lisa Levin]

    Shares of CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (NYSE: CVU) got a boost, shooting up 25 percent to $7.10 after the company posted upbeat Q1 results.

    Wayfair Inc (NYSE: W) shares were also up, gaining 25 percent to $63.71 after first-quarter earnings boasted a 2.7-percent sales beat and 46-percent year-over-year increase in active customers.

  • [By Lisa Levin]

    Shares of CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (NYSE: CVU) were down around 14 percent to $7.30 on downbeat quarterly results.


    IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT) was down, falling around 15 percent to $15.88 following Q2 results. IDT reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $875,000.

stock market latest news: NiSource, Inc(NI)

Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Lisa Levin]

    In trading on Thursday, utilities shares fell by 2.01 percent. Meanwhile, top losers in the sector included Unitil Corporation (NYSE: UTL), down 9 percent, and NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI), down 5 percent.

stock market latest news: Synchronoss Technologies Inc.(SNCR)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Lisa Levin]

    In trading on Wednesday, financial shares fell 1.72 percent. Meanwhile, top losers in the sector included Whitestone REIT (NYSE: WSR), down 8 percent, and Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR), down 7 percent.

  • [By Paul Ausick]

    Synchronoss Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR) posted a new 52-week low of $9.95 on Tuesday, down about 41% from Monday’s closing price of $16.75. The stock’s 52-week high is $49.94. Volume totaled around 19 million shares, about 20 times the daily average. The company said this morning that takeover talks by private equity firm Siris Capital Group had ended without an agreement.

  • [By Jim Robertson]

    On Tuesday, our Elite Opportunity Pronewsletter suggested going long on small cap cloud software and services stock Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ: SNCR):

stock market latest news: Atkore International Group Inc. (ATKR)

Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Spencer Israel]

    3. Atkor International Group Inc (NYSE: ATKR) – Five of the six analyst ratings on the manufacturing holding company have been bullish. With the stock showing very strong technical support at $16, and currently trading at $16.68, Stockal's confidence meter is at 90%. 

  • [By Ben Levisohn]

    Flexing the barbell strategy to balance Safe Havens with more cyclical exposures. In our view, industrials investors should be positioning their portfolio with a barbell strategy, with half of the exposure in Safe Havens like General Electric, Xylem (XYL), Danaher, Honeywell International, Roper Technologies (ROP), and AMETEK (AME), and the other half selectively in the cyclical names that are better positioned today, such as Pentair, HD Supply Holdings (HDS),Actuant (ATU), Atkore International Group (ATKR), Ingersoll-Rand, and Eaton (ETN). We still believe risk-reward is mostly balanced and that the macro will remain choppy into 2017, supporting a positioning in the defensive names. But if investor sentiment improves on not-worse news and earnings results, the more cyclical names could fare better.

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