Daily Oil Fundamentals

The US Will Go it Alone

18 Feb 2025

The US Will Go it Alone

Oil prices continue to be muted, mulling varied influences but way too frightened of falling foul of a geopolitical hand grenade that might be tossed from Washington.

Daily Oil Fundamentals

A Week of the Same Again

17 Feb 2025

A Week of the Same Again

President Trump continues to wear the tag of the most influential inhabitant there has ever been in the White House. Doling out his wisdoms and unique take on diplomatic negotiation, markets were forced to ignore such lofty data last week in the form of European GDP, US CPI, PPI and Retail Sales and Jerome Powell’s two-day testimony on Capitol Hill.

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Frightening Peace Prospects

14 Feb 2025

Frightening Peace Prospects

The US President can be accused of many things; inertia is not one of them. The tariff merry-go-round keeps spinning and not even God knows when it will stop. In his latest salvo, he promised to introduce reciprocal tariffs on every country, which disincentivises US imports.