Riding the Oilfield Service Rodeo, with HAL, PUMP, and WTF

By Paul Sankey Published on July 27, 2026 at 7:33 PM

Publishing a note on Sunday has become existential for me, so I apologise for not getting this note out yesterday. This is my Sunday note… so late it is on a Monday. I have stripped it down to be mostly about Halliburton. What started as a quick look at Halliburton’s results for Sunday, then got tangled with Liberty Energy down -25% on its results last week, SLB results then had that stock moving strongly higher …

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Sunday Answer Steve: Buy (more) Old Economy Stocks (like Oils)

By Paul Sankey Published on February 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM

We sent you a note on Uranium this morning, and so will keep this brief. I said I would do return a favour to Hedge Fund guru Doug Garber and join him on a podcast, and now I am being thrown in as a Venezuela expert. Which is the old “tallest dwarf” joke, but here it is, Friday February 13th, don’t forget Valentine’s Day next Saturday: https://shorturl.at/hzIn7 ~ Our note on last Friday’s: “XOM for …

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Sunday Cold Digits, Digital Heat

By Paul Sankey Published on January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM

Greetings, Presumably you have power, if you are reading this. Good for you. I bought an emergency power pack yesterday: “Anker Portable Power Station SOLIX C300, 288Wh LiFePO4 Battery, 300W (600W Surge) 140W Two-Way Fast Charging, for Outdoor Camping, Traveling, and Emergencies (Solar Panel Optional)” so we should avoid an outage. Or get a three day outage that renders that wee power block absurdly under-sized. It cannot run a heater, for example, you need 1,000W …

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