Striking Fast Trade Deals

Daily Standup Top Stories The steep learning curve America faces if it wants to return to previous shipyard glory days April 15, 2025 Stu Turley ENB Pub Note: Interesting article from America’s Shipyards. While we retool the 19,000 manufacturing shops that the Democrats and Republicans shipped to China, we should also look at building our commercial […]

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Uncertainty Is Overshadowing Fundamentals in Oil Markets – Funamentals will play a bigger role in the near future

ENB Pub Note: This is an excellent time to talk about the fundamentals of the global oil and gas market. For years, the fundamentals were impacted by imperfect reporting from different sources, sanctions and weaponization of the US Dollar, and the response from Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and other countries. The Dark Fleet is well over […]

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Steel Market Reacts

Daily Standup Top Stories Trump to sign executive orders aimed at reviving coal April 8, 2025 Clark Savage President Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive orders Tuesday to bolster the coal industry, including using his emergency authority to force some coal-fired power plants set for closure to stay open and keep producing […] U.S. Nuclear is […]

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Oil Price Slump, Tariffs Hit Oilfield Services Sector

Trump’s sweeping tariffs and China’s retaliation triggered a sharp drop in oil prices. The oilfield services sector is particularly vulnerable, facing reduced demand and profit margins due to falling oil prices, higher import costs, and tighter client budgets. With WTI hovering near breakeven levels and OPEC+ unexpectedly ramping up output, analysts foresee consolidation among oilfield […]

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Trump’s China Tariff

Daily Standup Top Stories Trump Threatens 50% More China Tariffs, Teases Talks With Others April 7, 2025 Clark Savage President Donald Trump threatened to slap additional 50% import taxes on China, while readying negotiations with Japan and Israel, leaving markets struggling to grasp his intentions for his sweeping tariff plans. Stocks swung wildly on Monday as […] Markets, Oil […]

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What is impacting oil prices today? Is it the Trump Reciprocal Tariff, or is supply and demand returning to the pricing matrices?

ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on The Crude Truth Substack by Rey Trevino here: https://crudetruth.substack.com/p/what-is-impacting-oil-prices-today. I agree with the article and the author, but what do you think? Do you think Saudi Arabia can control production, or will it just give up? When countries that can just print money do it, what is […]

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