The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) tumbled as much as 1,500 points yesterday and closed down an astonishing 1,175 points – a 4.6 percent loss. The Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500), a broader stock market index and generally better metric for measuring stock market performance, was also down by moreRead More →
Previously, chart-it observed that US coal consumption was in a multi-year decline but that US coal exports were up substantially. In this long overdue follow-up, we’ll review the state of US coal since 2014. Let’s start by revisiting US coal consumption through September 2017 and exports through June 2017, theRead More →
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), the main federal agency responsible for collecting and analyzing energy statistics, has been rolling out an application programming interface (API), allowing developers to more easily access their vast statistical database. In our energy series, chart-it will use the EIA’s API to explore their database for interesting observations aboutRead More →
Earlier this week, we compared the drop in the price of crude oil in December 2014 to the historical volatility of crude oil prices to understand the magnitude of the change. Today, we’ll explore the historical relationship between crude oil prices and economic growth. We note that many research papersRead More →