European natural gas prices surge 38% (!!) to a new record 🚨
🇷🇺 The market fears Russian gas exports may be disrupted if US embargoes oil
🇷🇺 Russian gas account for about a third of Europe’s demand, and are currently not covered by current sanctions
⚙️Palladium hit an all-time high on mounting concerns that exports from top producer Russia
🇷🇺 Russia accounts for 40% of all mined production of the metal that’s used in catalytic converters in gasoline vehicles
US oil futures posted its biggest weekly gain EVER as Russia’s attack on Ukraine has sparked fears of a major supply crunch 📈📈📈
Futures in New York rose by more than $24 this week, the highest weekly dollar increase on record
(Russia is a major exporter of oil & gas 🇷🇺)
The Biden administration is weighing a ban on US imports of Russian crude oil 🇺🇸 🙅♂️
(Yes, the US still imports Russian oil even a decade after the shale revolution turned America into an exporter. It makes up 3% of total US crude imports last year)
North Asia’s liquefied natural gas spot price surged to a record 🚨
🚢 Russian supply concerns intensified competition between Asia and Europe for available supply of the super-chilled fuel
📈 JKM LNG rose to nearly $60/mmbtu, doubling in the last week
“Panic spread through the international gas markets over supply availability due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict,” according to S&P Global Commodity Insights
Why today’s attack on the Ukraine nuclear power plant is nothing like Chernobyl 🧵
News of Russia shelling Europe's largest atomic plant sent shudders around the world. But there are a myriad of reasons why it's unlikely to result in an atomic disaster
While Ukrainain Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned of a disaster “10 times larger” than Chernobyl when a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia plant, analysts and specialists I spoke to throughout the morning said that was unlikely
📌 First off, what happened?
A fire had broken out at the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine after Russian shelling overnight (the fire has since been contained)
The facility -- near the city of Enerhodar, about 500 km from Chernobyl -- has a total capacity of 5.7 GW