GDP 2Q22: Down 0.9% -- First Look 2Q22 GDP

Updates

Later, after GDP number released:

• MasterCard: earnings, huge numbers; crushed it; certainly doesn't support recessionary fears

Original Post

This would be a great time to re-listen to Jay Powell's remarks yesterday.

• some say he was dovish going forward;
• some say he was hawkish going forward;
• should he have hiked 100 basis points?
• should he have raised "inter-meeting"? 
• my take: this suggests that Jay Powell is not as worried about the economy as other might be
• raising 100 basis points and an "inter-meeting" raise would have sent a huge negative message, a message perhaps more negative than the message the negative GDP is sending
  

Down 9/10th of one percent. 

• criteria: pervasive, pronounced, prolonged
  
• much of this was from less federal government spending
• but "inflation reduction act" plus "chips act" will add another trillion dollars in spending
• just in time for election
• SOS: Solyndra on steroids
  
• White House yesterday: not necessarily
  

Dow: reaction: from down 59 to down 95 ( futures)

• after ten minutes, back to about 60 points down;
• wow! twenty minutes later, Dow implied open goes positive 
• half hour later: back where we were before the GDP was announced: down 45 points, Dow futures
  

Ford: beat, huge, earnings, link here.

Pfizer: beat. Link here.

EPD: raises dividend again. Link here.

Crescent Point Energy: earnings, press release.

Shell, earnings, twitter.

EOG: earnings, twitter.

Semiconductors, chips: poised for growth, link here.

• Pelosi sells $4 million worth of Nvidia stock at a major loss, link here.

Mercedes: robust earnings, guidance, link here.

Meta: miss expectations, net income plummets 36%; link here.

BP annual report: link here via Rigzone.

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Back to the Bakken

Far Side: link here.

WTI: $99.22.

Natural gas: $8.501

Thursday, July 28, 2022: 28 for the month, 28 for the quarter, 367 for the year

• 38667, conf, CLR, Bang 4-4H,

Wednesday, July 27, 2022: 27 for the month, 27 for the quarter, 366 for the year

• 38614, conf, CLR, Bang 13-4H1,

RBN Energy: drill down report on ESG in the energy industry. 

Over the past few years, the simultaneous drives for action on climate change, diversity in the workplace, and corporate accountability have coalesced into the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement. The energy industry has been at the center of all this, of course, because significant volumes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are generated with the production, processing, transportation and –– especially –– consumption of hydrocarbons. But while many energy companies have developed ESG strategies and goals, the ESG movement has also come under increasing scrutiny and criticism –– and from all sides, it seems. So where does the movement stand today, and what are its prospects in a world that is now as focused on energy security and affordability as it is on quickly reining in GHG emissions? In today’s RBN blog, we discuss highlights from our new Drill Down Report on the issues surrounding ESG.

It’s not surprising that ESG came to the fore in the late 2010s, or that players in the energy industry — oilfield service companies, E&Ps, midstreamers and refiners — have taken on central roles in the movement. Back in 2015, the Paris Agreement attracted the world’s attention and made it clear that governments and industries of all stripes would be taking serious steps toward reducing GHG emissions. Also, a new generation of entrepreneurs and investors was eager to take socially responsible investing to the next level with the multifaceted aims of making corporations more open, more diverse in their management and staffing, and more committed to improving their environmental performance.

By 2020 and 2021, most energy companies had developed ESG strategies in which they detailed their efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other GHGs and to ramp up their efforts on the social and governance fronts. But there’s been some blowback, especially lately. Advocates of more aggressive climate action have asserted that ESG programs by many hydrocarbon-focused energy companies are little more than greenwashing, a subterfuge designed to soften the skepticism among ESG-minded investors and lenders and the general public about their industry and its activities and products.