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Greetings fellow earthlings, (Dow Jones WSJ 7/17/22) — Investors hoping a strong start to earnings season would jolt the stock market from its slump haven’t gotten much satisfaction. Early reports from U.S. companies have refocused attention on some of the biggest challenges facing businesses, from the threat of an economic slowdown to the pressure that rising costs are putting on corporate profits. JPMorgan Chase, Delta Air Lines and industrial supplier Fastenal are among those last […]

Off to Royal Ascot today, thoughts before we take the train, suited, booted, and in Patricia’s case, hatted. We are with the plebians for a variety of reasons. So, I do not need to dress as a penguin/full morning suit and topper (Royal Enclosure dress requirement; there are tiers of “enclosures” descending from Royal, down to Windsor, based on social class, or in America, you would say money (debt will do)). A suit, plain shirt, […]

Stunning revelation: bullish copper. The genesis of this note was taking a look at Chile, given the very interesting political developments there. Electing a left-wing President (Gabriel Boric) in late December 2021, just two months old enough to be a candidate aged 35, was one thing, but the complete re-write of the constitution that is currently undergoing, with a due date of July 5th, is pretty fascinating from a global historical perspective, although rest assured, […]

The entire fiasco at Jurassic Park could have been avoided by hiring more than one IT guy. Every mocking online reply to a crypto bro is an NFT, because it’s a digital record of them being owned. Anti-stalking – learning another person’s routine in order to avoid them. Bonus information: what is being ratioed? It is when a searing response to your idiotic post gets more likes and re-tweets etc than the original. Hence ratioed. […]

BREAKING Major European gas news, Germany regulator suspends approval of Nordstream 2. Bullish news on Shell Corning glance on high glass prices BREAKING Watchers.News: Natural gas prices in Europe soared again on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, as the German Federal Network Agency — Bundesnetzagentur — suspended the process of certifying the new Russian gas pipeline called Nord Stream 2. The pipeline was completed in September 2021 and is designed to bypass Ukraine and connect Russia […]

Key points: ExxonMobil increased profit guidance As predicted by my BBG TV “it’s a global energy crisis” rant: Chinese government to energy companies: “buy all the energy you can” – link below Positive feedback from “influencer” investors on Embark autonomous trucks $NGAB Small-cap MLP? UAN is a fertilizer producer that uses petcoke feedstock advantage; just the ticket for this macro-environment; almost no coverage on Wall Street. It’s Friday, and in Sankey Research world that means […]

OIL RISK HIGH. We have an OPEC meeting tomorrow, and the word is that Iran is pumping into storage on anticipation of successful negotiations with the Biden administration, which, for reasons I do not fully understand, is very keen to make a nuclear deal. This will allow Iran back into global oil markets. We understand that OPEC is warning Iran not to flood the market, and Iran is saying “we are going to flood the […]

Looking for SPAC names, we had highlighted Quantumscape as interesting from the point of view of long-term potential. However, like so many alternative energy plays, revenues are years away from scale commercialization (a pilot project for the $19bn market cap company is due by 2023), and the company recently issued 13m shares at $64 to finance its high-cost development work (the stock fell to $47 over the next two days). We had the impression “funding […]