By Paul Sankey
Published on November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The choking smog of the current filthy dumpster fire in Washington DC is hardly the ideal backdrop for the visit of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington this Tuesday, 18th November. The other major news this week will of course be NVDA results, after the market a day later, this Wednesday November 19th. My working theory is that even assuming NVDA puts together another remarkable beat, the market is now worrying about too many …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Tomorrow: 4pm ET Rich Kruger, CEO Suncor, let’s talk some sense in to these people, I am fighting for the oils here. Rich is like an assassin. We have questions. “I am the assassin! With tongue forked from eloquence.” – Marillion, Assassing. Worth a YouTube. ~ For sure I was over-excited going into the first Chevron analyst meeting since 2023 and post-Hess – the longest gap between Chevron analyst meetings of my career. So I …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Torsten Slok, Chief Economist Apollo, published this chart Monday, we are all familiar with the theme. Source: Torsten Slok, Apollo Considering the scale “Capex Share of Operating Cashflow %” made me wonder, and caused me to recreate the chart but add the Big Oils. Given Torsten lists five Hyperscalers, I simply used five historic mega-oils, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TOTAL, and BP. Result: Source: Bloomberg, Sankey Research That certainly changes the perspective, and obviously becomes a …
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