For Monday morning at the open, first group "financial / economic" indicators:
- 10-Year Treasury: link here. Tonight: 1.896%. Down 0.088.
- DXY: link here. Tonight: 97.44. Up 0.74%.
- Silver: link here. Tonight: $24.385. Up 1.62%.
- Gold: link here. Tonight: $1,906.97. Up $17.93. Up 0.95%.
- CBOE volatility index: link here. Explained at Investopedia. Last: 27.59. Down 95.
For the archives:
The exit of BP from Rosneft raises big question about the future of others:
- Global oil services companies: SLB, HAL
- TTE is a big shareholder in gas producer Novatek
- oil traders Vitol and Trafigura are pouring billions into Rosneft's flagship new Vostok project
- it will be no surprise when Vitol becomes bigger than BP
- Norway's sovereign wealth fund will divest its Russian holdings
- Shell has a big stake in an LNG plant in the east and a retail footprint
- US dollar explodes
Putin's army:
- more than 3,000 Russian dead in four days;
- 40 Russian tanks destroyed yesterday (Saturday) alone;
- entire Chechen special forces brigade Putin brought in to create chaos and fear among the Ukrainians were instead slaughtered yesterday (Saturday) / completely destroyed
Add President Biden to the winner's list, also add cryptocurrency to the winner's list:
Other data points:
- Russia continues its advance in/on Ukraine;
- Putin plays the nuclear card;
- EU, USA, UK seem to be aligned with overwhelming sanctions;
- most notable: banning Russia from SWIFT
- Russian generals launch nuclear weapons at their own country's peril
- social media suggests Russia military leaders have lost confidence in Putin
- with all that, how is oil doing? first note at 6:42 p.m. CT, Sunday night
- WTI: up 5.3%; up $4.84; trading at $96.43. Later, around midnight: $96.47.
- Brent: up 5.2%; up $5.05; trading at $102.98. Later, around midnight: $103.15.
- natural gas: up 2.8%; up 13 cents; trading at $4.596.
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