Finance
As Life Happens, “Locked-in” Homeowners Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: Share Drops to 54%, Lowest since Q4 2020
Conversely, the share of 6%-plus mortgages outstanding surges to the highest since 2016.
Finance
Finance
Not Another Free Lunch: Don’t Let Fannie and Freddie Turn Back into GSEs
“The risk is 99% public and the profit is 100% private.”
Finance
Underlying Labor Market Dynamics Still Tight Despite Highest Gov Layoffs & Discharges since Census Wind-Down of 2020
Hiring Begins to Shift to Private-Sector where Hiring Jumped, while Hiring by Governments Slumped.
Finance
VesselsValue: South Korea’s LNG carrier orderbook worth $71.3 billion
South Korean yards have 276 LNG carriers worth $71.3 billion on order, according to the newest data by Veson Nautical’s VesselsValue. Within the South Korean orderbook, the LNG sector is the most valuable, accounting for […]
Big Oil Companies
Tokyo Gas to buy US shale gas stake from Chevron
TG Natural Resources, in which Tokyo Gas America has a 93 percent stake and a unit of Castleton Commodities International holds the rest, has closed on a transaction to purchase a 70 percent interest in […]
EIA News
Peak Permian: Timing uncertain
Daily Standup Top Stories Norway’s Oil Fund to Buy Stakes in Offshore Wind for $1.5 Billion March 31, 2025 Clark Savage The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $1.8 trillion oil fund, will buy 49% in […]
ENB Pub Note
Beijing looks to put the brakes on the sale of Hutchison Ports
ENB Pub Note: I agree with Amuse from X: President Trump has once again been proven correct. Panama claimed that the Hong Kong-based company, CK Hutchison, which operates the two ports at either end of […]
Finance
Norway’s Oil Fund to Buy Stakes in Offshore Wind for $1.5 Billion
The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $1.8 trillion oil fund, will buy 49% in two offshore wind farm developments of RWE for a total of $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros), the fund’s manager, Norges […]
Finance
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies and Gold
The surge of the “nontraditional reserve currencies.”
Finance
Could a Market Meltdown Trigger the Next Recession?
Wolf Richter with Adam Taggart on Thoughtful Money. Recorded on March 20. Here is one of my articles, published on March 14, that discusses in detail what I talked about in the interview… “We’re focused […]