Locator: 44407B.
Flashback, link here.
- Peter Lynch oon Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street, June 28, 2002 -- more thhan twenty years ago.
Putin's War: shifting the burden to the population. The Russia File -- from the Wilson Center. Link here.
Lucid: on which planet do these folks live? Link here.
The Lucid Air starts $180,000, though that is the going rate for a Porsche Taycan Turbo S.
The Model S Plaid [Tesla], essentially the car the Lucid likely benchmarked the Air against, starts at around $130,000 when optioned with full-self driving.
Whether the Lucid is worth around $50K more is an interesting question.
The Lucid Air in Grand Touring trim does much more range (516 miles) than the Model S (348 miles).
That being said, if you're in the market for that high-end super performing sedan, electric sedan, the Lucid here is an unbelievable package. And if you're looking for a cheaper version of this car, there's the Pure edition which will start around $80,000 and comes well equipped and offers 400 miles of range.
Renault: in light of Tesla price cuts, Renault reviewing its prices worldwide. Link here.
GM: ditches Apple CarPlay. WSJ. 99% of those commenting at the article consider this a really, really dumb move on the part of GM. Announced by GM's CFO. GM is desperate to cut costs.
Germany shuts down last nuclear reactor. Everyone following this story (rationally) says this was a most stupid move -- to shut down its entire nuclear energy program. On so many levels.
Copper: Teck, Glencore, BHP, Rio Tinto Group, Anglo, Vale SA, Freeport McMoRan -- link here.
HP and Rio Tinto Group have already shown they’re willing to pay hefty premiums
for copper, both doing recent deals for about a 50% premium (Glencore’s
Teck offer is 20% by comparison), but these were relatively small,
bolt-on acquisitions.
A Teck bid would be an order
of magnitude higher, and — unlike the recent deals — would likely
attract competition. It has already been reported that Anglo, Vale SA
and Freeport McMoRan Inc. would be interested in the company’s metals business following a spinoff.
Teck
investors, who get to decide the company’s immediate future at a vote
next week, will now have to weigh up whether the lure of its copper
mines is enough for the big players to break free from the financial
shackles they’ve worn for the past decade and pursue a landmark deal.
Finland: fourteen years delayed!!
Europe’s largest nuclear reactor has begun regular power output 14
years later than planned, boosting the region’s energy
independence. The 1,600-megawatt plant in Finland is the first new
atomic reactor in the Nordic countries since the mid-1980s.
Before market opens:
- SCCO: flat in the pre-market.
- BUD: up 1.1%.
- first time ever, a Budweiser commercial on my twitter feed
- the classical Clydesdale commercial
- SCHW: up 2.0%
- earnings: forecast, 90 cents / share
- beats by 3 cents; link here;
At open, SCHW falls over 2%. Was "up" pre-market and then with announcement about buy-backs, drops. But mid-morning, back up over 3%.
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Back to the Bakken
Active rigs: 41.
Peter Zeihan newsletter.
WTI: $82.01.
Natural gas: $2.181.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 -- taxes due: 32 for the month; 32 for the quarter, 287 for the year
39217, conf, SOGC (Sinclair), Grasslands Federal 14-15-5H,
Monday, April 17, 2023: 31 for the month; 31 for the quarter, 286 for the year
38866, conf, Liberty Resources, CA S 158-93-21-23-3MBHX,
Sunday, April 16, 2023: 30 for the month; 30 for the quarter, 285 for the year
38638, conf, Whiting, Braaaflat 11-11-3H,
38372, conf, Oasis, Rey Federal 5201 32-11 3B,
Saturday, April 15, 2023: 28 for the month; 28 for the quarter, 283 for the year
None.
RBN Energy: Energy Transfer steps up its Permian game with Lotus Midstream deal, part 5. Archived.
It’s not just the upstream side of the Permian that’s in the midst of a
major consolidation. Over the past couple of years, a slew of
significant M&A deals have been made in the midstream space, most
recently Energy Transfer’s $1.45 billion plan to acquire Lotus
Midstream. Backed by private equity, Lotus has assembled an impressive
array of crude-oil gathering, storage and long-haul pipeline assets in
West Texas and southeastern New Mexico — including the Centurion
pipeline system that links the Permian with the crude oil hub in
Cushing, OK. In today's RBN blog, we discuss the deal and what it means
for Energy Transfer, whose role in the U.S.’s most prolific
crude-oil-focused production area is poised to expand by leaps and
bounds.
