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Too Little, Too Late? Possibly.

14 Oct 2026

Too Little, Too Late? Possibly.

If you let your imagination run riot, you could envision a tense crisis meeting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday as the prices of distillates and diesel started to run amok again. The oil fraternity has seemingly concluded that the US exemption allowing Russia to resume diesel exports will make little difference in the immediate future, while what happens beyond November 3 appears irrelevant for now.

Daily Oil Fundamentals

Diesel Wars

13 Oct 2026

Diesel Wars

In 2021 the official annualised inflation rate across the whole of the European Community was 2.9 percent having reacted sharply higher as the world came out of its lockdown slumber. A forgivable reaction with supply lines readjusting to global demand surging in just about everything.

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Chaos Compounded

12 Oct 2026

Chaos Compounded

Financial and commodity markets are currently all about oil. In peacetime, oil investors tend to follow the sentiment of the wider investment world; during wars, they shape it. Energy-induced inflation, coupled with political turmoil in France, is putting enormous pressure on bond yields, making public debt increasingly difficult to service and heralding tax increases and spending cuts further down the line.

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