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Carnival remains the largest company in the cruise industry, with nine global brands and 92 ships at the end of fiscal 2023. The global cruise market has historically been underpenetrated, offering cruise companies a long-term demand opportunity. Additionally, the repositioning and deployment of ships to faster-growing and underrepresented regions like Asia-Pacific had helped balance the supply in high-capacity regions like the Caribbean and Mediterranean prior to the pandemic, a factor which the firm can again utilize to help optimize forward pricing. With an European demand profile that has recently returned to normalized levels, we believe there is ample support for improving economic performance at Carnival.

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As Carnival continues to optimize occupancy, passenger counts and yields could rise at a faster pace than we currently anticipate.

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Carnival PLC is a global cruise company. The Company’s segments include North America and Australia (NAA) cruise operations, Europe and Asia (EA) cruise operations, Cruise Support, and Tour and Other. NAA cruise operations include Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises (Australia), and Seabourn. The EA segment includes Costa Cruises (Costa), AIDA Cruises (AIDA), P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard. Cruise Support segment includes its portfolio of port destinations and other services, all of which are operated for the benefit of its cruise brands. Tour and Other segment represent the hotel and transportation operations of Holland America Princess Alaska Tours and other operations. Holland America Princess Alaska Tours is a tour company in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, which complements its Alaska cruise operations. The Company’s cruise line brands offer a range of vacation options for guests with a variety of leisure-time activities.

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Is Shell trying to kill the London stock market?

The biggest company on the market is threatening to leave. That is a different order of seriousness than seeing Flutter and CRH flee

L ast July, Wael Sawan, the chief executive of Shell, told the BBC about the terrific time he had on a visit to the New York stock exchange. The welcome was “exemplary”, he enthused, and the locals even flew the Shell flag next to their own. “They [the NYSE officials] said we continue to value a company that provides us the energy we desperately need,” he continued, adding that he wouldn’t rule out moving Shell’s stock market listing to the US in time, an inflammatory suggestion given the general angst over the state of the London market.

Now he’s at it again. In remarks to Bloomberg published this week, he said Shell had “a location” – meaning London – “that clearly seems to be undervalued”. His beef is the perceived undervaluation of Shell’s shares versus those of New York-listed rivals Chevron and ExxonMobil. If the valuation gap doesn’t close, “we have to look at all options. All options,” he emphasised .

For good measure, his predecessor as chief executive, Ben van Beurden, joined the grumbling, telling an FT conference this week that Shell is “massively undervalued” in London and that deeper pools of capital in the US, higher valuations and the “more positive” attitudes of investors “conspire” against all European energy companies. “Something will have to give,” opined Van Beurden.

This is starting to sound like a campaign to create an air of inevitability around a switch to the US. Or, if it isn’t that, Shell’s top operatives seem transfixed by the notion that a relisting will cure all their troubles. It’s their job to fret about the share price, but it’s hard to overstate how detrimental this is for the London Stock Exchange . The biggest company on the market is openly threatening to leave. That is a different order of seriousness than seeing Flutter, Ferguson and CRH flee to the US. If Shell goes, who’s next? Glencore? Even BP?

But here’s one basic question about Sawan’s thesis: is it even correct? Does the undervaluation, in terms of earnings and cashflow multiples, exist solely by virtue of the fact that Shell is listed in London? One doubts the story is as simple as that.

It’s not as if US investors currently have any difficulty buying shares in Shell, whether directly or through American depositary receipts. On the company’s own numbers, 45% of its institutional register is already American versus 29% from the UK. Unlike Ferguson or CRH, there seems to be no difficulty getting noticed by American money. That is hardly surprising: we are talking here about a £180bn company. It seems unlikely the market would leave a 25% discount, which seems to be Shell’s rough current analysis, on the table unless other factors were at work.

The real explanation, perhaps, is that the stock market (sadly) is deeply sceptical about the pace of energy transition and the returns on capital in renewables. Thus, the most oily firms, such the two US titans, are prized over those with a sideline in renewables, such as Shell, which in turn is valued more highly than those with a slightly greener hue, such as BP. This price signal is terrifying from a climate perspective, but the point is that a mere relisting of Shell’s shares wouldn’t change the make-up of its assets.

Maybe Sawan would like to water down further Shell’s emission-reduction targets and thinks it would be easier to do so from the US. But if that’s the case, he should say so openly. There is a strong whiff here that what Shell and Sawan really dislike is the climate policies of European governments. That is a separate argument to the questionable claim that the same earnings are valued wildly differently in different markets.

The London Stock Exchange gets a lot of flak, including from this column, for its seeming lack of concern about departees and the lack of new arrivals. But on this occasion, one can feel some sympathy. Shell – possibly the most liquid, deeply researched and widely owned stock in town – seems to have alighted on the “undervaluation” theme without showing evidence that location is the problem in its case. In the LSE’s shoes, you’d be furious. Shell’s loose “maybe we will, maybe we won’t” talk is seriously damaging.

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Crude oil prices today: WTI prices are up 18.31% YTD

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What is the price of crude oil today?

WTI futures traded at $86.89 per barrel, as of 9 a.m. ET. Year to date, WTI prices are up by 18.31%.

Brent futures traded around $91.66/bbl, an increase of 1.55% in the last 24 hours. Year to date, Brent prices are up by 15.94%.

What is the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price today?

WTI futures rose by 1.55% to $86.89/bbl, as of 9 a.m. ET.

WTI oil price chart

West Texas Intermediate prices have drifted lower in 2024, but prices are up 44.17% over the past three years.

WTI crude fell to its 52-week low of $64.00 per barrel on May 3, 2023. It reached its 52-week high of $95.52 on Sep. 27, 2023. That’s 9.03% higher than the current futures price.

Brent crude oil price today

Brent futures rose by 1.55% to $91.66/bbl, as of 9 a.m. ET.

Brent crude oil price chart

Brent crude oil is generally subject to the same supply and demand factors that influence WTI crude prices, so the long-term price chart looks extremely similar to the WTI chart.

Brent crude oil prices hit their all-time high of $147.50/bbl during the oil market boom in July 2008. However, WTI futures contract prices dropped to as low as negative $40/bbl on April 20, 2020, driven largely by a lack of U.S. storage options during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brent futures contracts remained well above zero, bottoming at around $25/bbl that day.

Brent crude fell to its 52-week low of $68.20 per barrel on May 3, 2023. It reached its 52-week high of $96.62 on Sep. 27, 2023. That’s 0.05% higher than the current futures price.

What is crude oil? And what is crude used for?

Crude oil is one of the most important commodities in the world, serving as a key energy source and as a raw material used to produce plastics, chemicals and other products. Nearly all the crude oil imported or produced in the U.S. is refined into petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel and heating oil.

The prices of U.S. WTI crude oil and international Brent crude oil are influenced by several factors that can change the market’s supply and demand balance.

The weather in the U.S. market can drastically alter near-term demand for heating oil and natural gas, sending crude oil prices higher.

Natural disasters and geopolitical conflicts worldwide can disrupt production and create oil supply shortages. The U.S. and global economies experience much higher industrial energy demand during periods of strong economic growth and lower demand during economic downturns. Finally, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries can significantly alter global crude oil supplies by increasing or cutting production.

WTI crude is a blend of oils extracted from U.S. oilfields in Texas, North Dakota and Louisiana and is delivered to Cushing, Oklahoma.

WTI oil has an American Petroleum Institute gravity of 39.6 degrees, considered “light.” WTI also has a sulfur content of just 0.24%, making it very “sweet.” WTI crude oil is typically the benchmark for U.S. oil prices in the trading world.

Brent crude

Brent crude is a sweet, light blend of oils extracted from the North Sea near Europe.

Brent crude is oil extracted from the Brent, Ekofisk, Forties and Oseberg oil fields. Brent has an API gravity of 38 degrees and a sulfur content of 0.4%, making it slightly heavier and less sweet than WTI. Brent is typically used as a benchmark for international oil markets, such as markets in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

WTI vs. Brent crude

WTI and Brent crude oil blends are both sweet, light crude oil bends used as benchmarks in financial markets. However, there are five key differences between WTI and Brent:

• Extraction: WTI is extracted from U.S. oilfields in Texas, North Dakota and Louisiana, while Brent crude is extracted from the North Sea near Europe.
• Composition: WTI is slightly lighter and sweeter than Brent oil.
• Geopolitics: WTI prices are more heavily influenced by U.S. politics and policies, while international politics and embargoes have a greater influence on Brent prices.
• Exchange: Brent crude futures contracts are primarily traded on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), while WTI futures contracts are primarily traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX).
• Pricing: WTI and Brent crude oil prices are very highly correlated, but Brent oil has historically traded at a slight pricing premium to WTI.

Brent Crude/WTI spread

The difference between the spot price of Brent crude and WTI crude is called the Brent/WTI spread.

The Brent/WTI spread has historically ranged between $4/bbl and $8/bbl, but it can expand or contract based on factors related to U.S. and international supply and demand conditions. For example, the Brent/WTI spread hit nearly $14/bbl in April 2011 when protests sparked market fears of significant oil supply disruptions in the Middle East.

Crude oil futures prices

One of the most popular ways investors speculate on crude oil and other commodity prices is by trading futures contracts. Futures contracts are agreements to buy or sell a standardized amount of an asset at a specific price on a particular future date.

WTI crude futures

The most popular WTI crude oil futures contracts are traded on the NYMEX. Each CL contract represents 1,000 barrels of oil, and the contracts trade Sunday to Friday from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m. U.S. ET.

Brent crude futures

The most popular Brent Crude Oil futures contracts are traded on the ICE under the symbol B, but investors can also trade the contracts on the CME Globex trading platform under the symbol BZ. Trading hours for Brent futures on CME are the same as WTI futures: Sunday to Friday from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m. U.S. ET. But Brent futures on ICE trade from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. U.S. ET on ICE business days.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

To buy and sell crude oil futures contracts, you must open a brokerage account that offers commodity futures trading. The primary futures contracts for WTI crude oil trades on the NYMEX under CL. The primary futures contracts for Brent crude oil trades on the ICE under the symbol B.

Anyone can buy or sell popular oil stocks simply by opening and funding a standard brokerage account.

Popular oil stocks include global oil majors like Exxon Mobil (XOM), oil and gas exploration and production companies like ConocoPhillips (COP), and oil and gas midstream pipeline companies like Enbridge (ENB).

Saudi Arabian oil is neither WTI, extracted in the U.S., nor Brent, extracted in the North Sea near Europe. Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company , Saudi Aramco, uses the Dubai/Oman crude oil benchmark when pricing its oil for delivery to Asia.

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Wayne Duggan is a regular contributor for Forbes Advisor and U.S. News and World Report and has been a staff writer for Benzinga since 2014. He is an expert in the psychological challenges of investing and frequently reports on breaking market news and analyst commentary related to popular stocks. Some of his prior work includes contributing news and analysis to Seeking Alpha, InvestorPlace.com, Motley Fool, and the Lightspeed Active Trading blog. He’s the author of the book "Beating Wall Street With Common Sense," which focuses on practical investing strategies to outperform the stock market. He resides in Biloxi, Mississippi

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Microsoft is opening a new artificial-intelligence unit in London, putting itself firmly on the turf of its biggest AI rival: Google DeepMind.

The announcement came just weeks after Microsoft hired the DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman to run its new AI division. In a blog post published Sunday, Suleyman said the new London unit would be run by the former DeepMind researcher Jordan Huffman.

Microsoft already has offices in the UK's capital and previously pledged to invest £2.5 billion in UK data centers over the next three years. But the fact this new hub is focused entirely on AI — and is being run by former DeepMinders — should give Google plenty of reasons to worry. In the battle for top AI talent , a bigger London presence could be a savvy move for Microsoft.

"There is an enormous pool of AI talent and expertise in the UK, and Microsoft AI plans to make a significant, long-term investment in the region as we begin hiring the best AI scientists and engineers into this new AI hub," Suleyman wrote in the announcement on Sunday.

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Last year, in response to increased pressure from rivals such as OpenAI, Google merged DeepMind with its central AI unit Brain, forming the new Google DeepMind.

Google DeepMind, which has more than 2,000 employees, is leading work on Gemini, the company's answer to OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model, making it a crucial piece in Google's strategy for AI.

But as rivals such as Meta and Microsoft try to shore up their AI units with greater resources and talent, they're attempting to poach some of Google's prized researchers, with reports of $10 million pay packets . Meta itself recently lost three top AI employees, while Google has lost a steady stream of employees to OpenAI over the past year.

Alex Libre, who's a cofounder and the principal recruiter of Einstellen Talent, recently told BI's Aaron Mok that startups were also starting to pay more for early-stage hires in order to compete with Big Tech offers.

Google DeepMind has been trying to retain talent by offering bigger compensation packages to some employees, according to people familiar with the matter. In one case, the Google cofounder Sergey Brin called a DeepMind researcher who was preparing to leave OpenAI and convinced them to stay.

As the Big Tech AI arms race for talent continues to heat up, Google may have to work even harder to stem the bleeding.

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Correction: April 8, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misstated when Mustafa Suleyman's blog post was published. It was published on Sunday, not Monday.

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