By Paul Sankey
Published on November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My Dear Correspondent, I was out all night last night. But to be clear, this nuit blanche, was not the “Do you fancy a swift half after work?” turning into an twelve hour bender, to return laughing uncontrollably as day breaks, having lost your tie and keys, loudly trying not to wake an incandescent wife. No sir, what would I know about that anyway? In fact, here in Michoacan, Mexico, we did a tour of …
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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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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Greetings from Brooklyn Heights, Well, the big story on Friday was the shocking arbitration decision against US start-up-to-giant US LNG exporter Venture Global, right? BP wins a major legal case! Wild. Well it was big news, until that is, we got a Truth Social post from Donald Trump that cratered the NASDAQ by eight handles and sent crypto-currencies to their largest one-day value loss in history of around -$19bn, sending social media into a frenzy. …
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