Economic Indicators
Energy Indicators
While the worst may be behind the industry, more job losses and business failures are likely over the short to medium term.
September 18, 2020
Dallas Fed Economics
Global Perspectives: Marvin E. Odum on the COVID-19 fight, energy outlook
Odum and Dallas Fed President Robert S. Kaplan participated in a moderated conversation with Krys Boyd of KERA and discussed the ongoing pandemic and how best to contain it.
August 25, 2020
COVID-19 tanks U.S. fuel consumption, prices
The effects of the pandemic, including working from home and reduced travel, dropped fuel consumption from mid-March to mid-April 2020.
June 23, 2020
Economic Indicators
Energy Indicators
Energy industry payrolls plunged in April, and mining sector unemployment insurance claims continued to climb in May.
June 16, 2020
Dallas Fed Economics
Gasoline demand more responsive to price changes than economists once thought
Recent advances in applied work have overturned decades of conventional wisdom regarding how consumers respond to gasoline price fluctuations.
June 16, 2020
Dallas Fed Economics
How falling oil prices in early 2020 weakened the U.S. economy
The benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price of oil dropped by more than half from Jan. 21 to April 3. This oil price decline has weakened rather than strengthened the U.S. economy, making this event different from past episodes of falling oil prices.
May 19, 2020
Dallas Fed Economics
Falling oil prices drag down U.S. business investment
The dramatic decline in the price of oil has led to massive investment reductions by U.S. oil and gas producers.
May 14, 2020
Economic Indicators
Energy Indicators
Falling demand and rapidly rising inventories caused crude prices to collapse in April, breaching negative territory for the first time in history.
May 07, 2020
Economic Indicators
Energy Indicators
Data have begun to roll in that underscore the scale of disruption caused by efforts to curtail and contain COVID-19.
April 22, 2020
Economic Indicators
Energy Indicators
The U.S. oil industry already had a significant preexisting condition in the form of receding access to capital when the coronavirus (COVID-19) added to its ills.
April 07, 2020