Sunday Russia & Tech, Lovers & Losers… Rigged

By Paul Sankey Published on February 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM

With so much macro noise, veritable banging and crashing, headlines emanating from The White House, it is also notable how much micro, company-specific news, we are getting. Stock price divergence has been high to start the year, for example among the Monopoly 7 (Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, Nvidia). In my memory of the “Monopoly 7”, we have never seen one each of the Mag 7 in each performance quadrant on the x-plot below. …

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Sunday Poison, Antidotes, Infestations and Condemnations

By Paul Sankey Published on September 22, 2024 at 3:07 PM

Good day! Today we go thematic, on the energy landscape in Washington DC, as the week ahead is relatively quiet for cyclical events. Bits and bobs on companies reporting, and economic news, but nothing big, in our view. Except watch out this week on Manhattan travel, for the annual end-September UN General Assembly and gridlock in Midtown. CNN: Slovenia’s UN envoy Samuel Žbogar, who is also the current president of the UN Security Council, described …

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Sunday Satya

By Paul Sankey Published on February 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM

Greetings, Having started last week upbeat on Big Oil results vs the market, expounded in this note last Sunday, my mood darkened throughout the week, culminating in depressed mood by Friday. Why? This oil sector’s performance vs the market. On Friday, with me optimistic on an earnings beat, ExxonMobil released its Q4 2023 results with a beat, right enough, and announced Q4 capex above Q3’s guidance. You can imagine the groan from Sankey Research HQ, …

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