Friday, January 6, 2023

Week 1: January 1, 2023 -- January 7, 2023

The single best story:

Top story:

  • Joe Biden is still president
  • US House of Representatives: GOP unable to elect Majority Leader -- GOP elects McCarthy on the 15th ballot. 

Top international non-energy story:

  • Russian-Ukraine war continues
    • NATO to supply Ukraine with armored, tracked vehicles
  • Covid-19 continues to surge in Asia
    • all the attention on China, but Japan, South Korea also experiencing surge

Top international energy story

  • Chevron starts shipping oil to the US from Venezuela.

Top national non-energy story:

  • US jobs report much, much better than expected
  • inflation moderating; down to 3.5% or thereabouts
  • Dow has 700-point rally today -- with inflation moderating, hope that JPow and Fed will pause
    • soft landing; shallow, short recession?

Top national energy story

  • crude oil inventories continue to fall, but products inventory increase
Javier Blas:

Focus on fracking: most recent edition.

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