The Market, Energy, And Political Page, T+22 -- June 22, 2018

Oil output increasing. It's official. OPEC-non-OPEC (Russia) agree to increase production. No link; story everywhere. Will post separate stand-alone post.

Pax Trump on the Korean Peninsula? This is huge. Anyone who followed the fall of the Berlin Wall understands what I'm talking about. This is absolutely huge. First time since the armistice?

Saudi increasing exports. From oilprice.com, this screenshot. The graphic compares the delta between current data (the dates on the x-axis vs October, 2016, export data:

• since October, 2016, Saudi's crude oil exports were focused on Asia
• finally, recently, Saudi's crude oil exports are now including non-Asia area

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The Apple Page

The Supreme Court takes Apple's position: one needs a court warrant for phone location data. But remember, Apple is making it more and more difficult for the company (Apple) to actually be able to unlock an iPhone.