Morning TINA turner

By Paul Sankey Published on May 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM

Today, Ed Morse at 4pm by Zoom on Happy Hour with one of his many mentees, Jan Stuart. Should be great, Ed is ready to rumble; we chatted yesterday. The backdrop is well-known, we will focus on the geopolitics Saudi/OPEC, Middle East and above all China demand, with of course Jan providing outstanding oil market work. Ed has modestly demurred on talking too much Kazakhstan/Russia but has suggest a future guest on the subject, who …

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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 Choose Your Mates Wisely, Because You Can’t Choose Your Family

By Paul Sankey Published on November 17, 2024 at 11:28 AM

We sent you a thematic yesterday at a slightly odd time, late Saturday evening for me here in London, on the UK North Sea and APA. We were very negative on both. This morning, a major long only client wrote from the US: “This [North Sea/APA] write up should be taught in both history classes and policy classes TODAY. Wonderful work and I love reading these. Thank you.” Awww, shucks, kudos as ever to Greg …

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