Mice & Men

By Paul Sankey Published on January 14, 2022 at 9:37 AM

Has Covid-19 forced you to wear glasses and a mask at the same time? You may be entitled to condensation. Vin Diesel only eats two meals a day to keep in shape for making movies: Breakfast and breakfurious A genie granted me one wish, so I said “I just want to be happy.” Now I’m living in a cottage with 6 dwarves and working in a mine. Robert Burns: “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ […]

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Masters’ Class

By Paul Sankey Published on January 13, 2022 at 9:16 AM

Mike Masters was the first American to score a goal at Wembley. But we had a different Mike Masters on Happy Hour last night, the hugely successful hedge fund manager who had a swimming scholarship to Tennessee, and started Masters Capital in 1994. He became highly prominent in 2008, testifying to Congress on oil speculation. Mike Masters: the market is obsessed with post-COVID recovery, but is not thinking enough about the decade prior to COVID […]

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We like them all

By Paul Sankey Published on January 11, 2022 at 9:38 AM

Make a good call, they always play out really fast and leave you wondering what’s next. We left last year predicting a bad January but a good year for markets, and a good year for oils. Markets have been quite the ride, notably yesterday the NASDAQ was crazy, while the oils have been good. In our cross plot of performance shown below, it is clear that some 2021 laggards are ripping this year, notably refining. […]

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