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The energy sector, pressured by a drop in oil prices, was the lead decliner, while insurers were some of the biggest losers in the financial sector a day after powerful Hurricane Michael slammed into Florida. The S&P’s 11 major sectors all ended the day in the red with only the communications services sector managing a decline of less than 1 percent. Energy was the biggest loser with a 3.1 percent drop as oil prices hit two-week lows after an industry report showed a bigger-than-expected build in U.S. crude inventories.[O/R].

The financial sector fell 2.9 percent, also hurt by a 2.7 percent drop in bank stocks a day before three of the biggest banks were to report quarterly results, Wall Street expects S&P 500 companies yellow glass rounds cufflinks to report third-quarter earnings growth of 21.3 percent for the third quarter according to I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv, The technology sector, the biggest loser in Wednesday’s sell-off, closed down 1.3 percent on Thursday, Stocks had seen some support earlier in the session from U.S, data showing a smaller-than-anticipated rise in consumer prices as it helped ease fears of increasing inflation pressures..

The data helped push U.S. Treasury yields to a one-week low, further soothing equity investors. But investors still faced a sea of worries, including uncertainty ahead of U.S. midterm congressional elections on Nov. 6, and hawkish comments last week from U.S. Federal Reserve officials. Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 3.52-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.66-to-1 ratio favored decliners. The S&P 500 posted no new 52-week highs and 62 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 6 new highs and 291 new lows.

MEXICO CITY/CARACAS (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.AS) is negotiating the sale of its stake in a Venezuelan oil joint venture to Paris-based Maurel & Prom (MAUP.PA), three sources said this week, a move to scale down its crude business in the ailing OPEC-member country to focus on gas, The Anglo-Dutch company is seeking to sell its 40 percent stake in Petroregional del Lago, a joint venture with Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] in the yellow glass rounds cufflinks western state of Zulia near Colombia..

The area has been plagued by frequent theft of equipment and near-daily power cuts as Venezuela remains mired in deep recession, hyperinflation and chronic shortages of food and medicine. Foreign companies also have complained in private that joint ventures with PDVSA are stymied by convoluted bureaucracy, dodgy contracts, and lack of resources, according to dozens of sources in the industry. At Petroregional, Shell has grown frustrated by delays in receiving dividends from PDVSA and a ban on minority partners independently exporting production, one of the sources said. That has deprived Petroregional, which in 2016 produced about 33,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, of much-needed income and dented profitability, the source added.

Its potential sale is being analyzed by Venezuela’s Oil Ministry, according to two of the sources, The sources asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the negotiations, In the last few weeks a disagreement with Venezuela has emerged over a fee called an entrance bonus that Maurel & Prom would have to pay to the yellow glass rounds cufflinks government, as required by Venezuelan law, to gain access to the field’s reserves, two of the sources said, Negotiations are currently on hold, they added..

“Everything was going very well but suddenly there were discrepancies over the entrance bonus,” one of the sources said. The persons were unaware of a possible price tag negotiated between Shell and Maurel & Prom, whose main stakeholder is Indonesian state energy firm Pertamina [PERTM.UL]. Shell declined to comment. Maurel & Prom, Pertamina, PDVSA and Venezuela’s Information Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for information. Pertamina in 2013 tried to enter Venezuela by buying a stake in another joint venture, Petrodelta, but did not receive government approval.

Maurel & Prom has traditionally been focused on Africa, but it has also formed strategic alliances with Toronto-based Frontera Energy Corp (FEC.TO) in Colombia and Peru in recent years, One of the sources said Maurel & Prom was planning to buy Petroregional as part of a consortium, “There are Venezuelan investors involved in the purchasing consortium,” the person said, The identity of the investors was not immediately clear, Shell’s potential scale-back comes as Venezuela’s oil industry, home to the world’s biggest crude reserves, is in meltdown, Its oil output declined again in September to 1.434 million barrels per day (bpd), yellow glass rounds cufflinks OPEC data showed on Thursday, knocking down the annual average to a six-decade low..

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