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Interventions

Matt Sterett
Mar 13, 2020
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“I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow & an optimist about the day after tomorrow” - Eric Sevareid


MACRO / REG.

We see messes being made & regulators preparing for clean-up:

  1. From Deutsche Bank to Bank of Oklahoma, loan loss reserves may be an issue again

    • Good news for them, the regulators are happy to provide relief

  2. If the world backtracks from Basel 3, we won’t be surprised

    • Would you call that a Basel 2-Step?

  3. Insurance is another animal - we can’t imagine that actuaries forecasted a scenario where corporate & health insurance markets were stressed this hard, globally

    • And if they did - and punted it to the re-insurers - well, it’s still a matter of stressed actuarial reserves

In any case, we’re expecting bailouts & stimulus packages of comical proportions -


OIL.

The supply & price Oil is still half of our problems, and we don’t see this being resolved in the short term.

New developments in the price war include:

  • Saudi announced ANOTHER production increase

  • The UAE announced a 30% production increase

  • Russian E&Ps held firm, claiming to be fine with much lower prices

We think this is Aramco’s back-of-the-napkin revenue ($MM/day) math:

E&Ps.

Yesterday - at close - Warren Buffett could’ve bought Shell, with Berkshire’s cash on hand…

To say that it’s been a long week is an understatement.

We don’t feel like knocking everyone while their down, so will move on to the other half of our problems - the Virus -


VIRUS.

Over the last 6x weeks, we’ve beat this topic to death.

On Wednesday, it seems that much of the US adopted views similar to ours.

Better late than never -

We’ll leave you with 3x current pieces on the virus that we believe are worth reading:

  • From Tomas Pueyo - What to Do

  • From Elad Gil - Virus Update

  • And, Ohio has 5x confirmed cases, but estimates that 1% of Ohio has the virus


SPORTS.

We bet on sports.

And that ended on Wednesday…

From Bryan Fischer:

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OTHER NEWS.

  • Undrawn credit lines across the US were drawn over liquidity fears. Both banks & the Fed assured the market that liquidity would not be an issue:

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  • Daniel Yergin’s take on the Virus+Oil

  • OFS is still getting squeezed

  • Post-OPEC+ fallout, tanker rates have spiked

  • Central Banks buying Equities bothers us


That’s it for this week - we’ll back Tuesday - we’re going to take a look at a few Oxy wells over weekend, to see what everyone is fussing about - be safe -

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