Morning Happiness is Ice and Orchids

By Paul Sankey Published on February 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM

Greetings! It’s a whippy 21°F here in Brooklyn Heights, -6°C. This is the windiest street n New York City, running parallel to the promenade along the exposed hill over looking the grey-icy Atlantic in New York Harbor, with 30mph ice blasts taking wind chill to -7°F, -17°C. This morning at 6:15am at Clark Street, at The Drip coffee kiosk at 6.15am my voice wavered, and cracked, as I asked for my daily “large, ah, iced …

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Saturday Poring, Sunday Pouring, Monday Pawing

By Paul Sankey Published on February 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Last night we sent you a note “Valero: Nothing to See Here” jammed with oil market/refining/Valero/PBF/Neste Elliott Management/BP etc chat. In eccentric fashion, the note was approved and distributed yesterday on Saturday night at 11:15pm. Just the perfect timing for a work email. So this note serves to highlight it to you, and keep it brief otherwise. Stay tuned for Sankey Research Partner Greg Bordelon model portfolio update later today, I suspect, but don’t know, …

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Sunday Realpolitik, Idealpolitik, und China-Sanktionen

By Paul Sankey Published on December 29, 2024 at 6:13 PM

Greetings, In the main part of this note, we examine two of the many key issues of 2025: German/EU natgas China sanctions There are so many counter-currents, that in this attempt to take some of the complexity and contradiction out of 2025 outlooks, by (mildly) deeper on both… we reveal yet more complexity. To keep it actionable, later today at 6pm ET, our resident master of clarity, Mr Greg Bordelon, Sankey Research executive partner, publishes …

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