Sunday Flares, Flares and No Flares

By Paul Sankey Published on March 31, 2024 at 3:39 PM

Greetings!  Happy Easter. Spring is here, early spring, in Brooklyn Heights. I have begun to spend long moments staring at the garden. I shift to another spot and stare at the beds again. No meaningful gardening action as of yet. One asparagus tip has emerged from last year’s “growing asparagus” debacle. Things are going well for us; where do we stand at end-Q1 2024?   As Q1 closes, the first slide is titled: “Energy dangerously close to …

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Sunday Coming in Hot… and Wet, and Cold

By Paul Sankey Published on March 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM

Delayed last night in Boston by severe storms and a ground stop at La Guardia, eventually we were the last flight to leave Logan Terminal A, and barreled into New York like a bucking bronco, especially for those of us at the back of the shuttle. We landed screaming hot, through the driving rain to what felt like a skidding stop. Welcome back to New York. Freezing! Three weeks on the road, with a final …

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Morning bp (the BP is silent)

By Paul Sankey Published on February 6, 2024 at 9:38 AM

Awoke? Obviously BP wants to hold its results conference call before the UK market opens, writes your correspondent after the conference call ENDS at 5:43am Brooklyn time (it started at 4am Eastern, with a couple of US analysts asking questions from Houston, for that 3am start, local time). “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day”‘ F. Scott Fitzgerald My suggestion, given that BP …

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