Peak Negativity: The Cycle of Oil and its Relationship with Renewables
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Job cuts have begun for some oil companies as they attempt to bring margins to a normalized number. And as stock prices drop for oil, renewable energies seem to have little to no relation with these numbers.
On this episode, our analysts will tell you what they'll be looking for over the next month as earnings are announced for the energy sector.
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| 0:00.0 | Peak negativity has arrived in the oil industry or has it on this energy |
| 0:04.4 | addition of industry focus. |
| 0:07.6 | Greetings fools I am Sean Riley here at Fool Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 0:15.0 | It is Thursday, October 15, 2015, and joining me are the absolute best people I could possibly spend my afternoon with, |
| 0:22.3 | Tyler Crow and Taylor |
| 0:23.5 | Mukerman. How's it going guys? |
| 0:24.5 | He's giving him a hard time for about 20 minutes while I've been sending this up so we |
| 0:27.7 | needed to get that one on the chest. He was a little sarcastic. |
| 0:30.3 | Filling in a little bit later in the afternoon than normal. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, no, we, you know, headquarters gets busy. |
| 0:37.0 | So I do have a question about this peak negativity that's creeping into the energy industry. Do we know if liquor sales have increased |
| 0:45.7 | markedly in the Houston metropolitan area? |
| 0:48.6 | My guess is probably yes if you look at what's been going on. wouldn't say liquor because liquor is like one of those |
| 0:55.2 | higher margin things you know a little bit more expensive to get a you know a bottle of liquor |
| 0:59.2 | or something like that I'm guessing like the really base like some really cheap beer that's going to be the |
| 1:03.5 | real thing going on Houston right now I mean if you look at some of the job cuts |
| 1:06.6 | have been going on in the area right now the 200,000 person job cuts the head |
| 1:11.4 | count cuts that we've seen across the energy specter. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, we, I wouldn't be surprised if sales of very cheap beer brands are |
| 1:21.0 | You guys can find out in a couple weeks for |
| 1:23.4 | yeah no we will we're just next week yeah and actually on that note this is not |
| 1:27.2 | planned but if you have any questions you would like us to ask the energy companies |
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