Here’s Why Magazine Covers Reveal the “Market Zeitgeist”… What Investors Should Do Instead..
Too many times in the past have I seen covers like this… and a few years later it didn’t turn out too bullish!
We covered magazine covers before as a great way to gauge “market zeitgeist.” It will be a while before we see offshore oil and gas, coal, or uranium hailed as a worthwhile investment on these covers. And when it happens, that’s when you’ll know it might be a good time to offload our positions. In other words, there’s still a lot of upside available in the hated sectors we focus on here at Insider.
Offshore Juice
Coming back to the offshore oil and gas theme…
Oil Majors Set To Sanction $125 Billion Upstream Projects in 2024
International oil and gas majors and the Middle East’s national oil companies are expected to give the green light this year to up to 30 projects, worth a total investment of $125 billion and holding an estimated 14 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of resources.
That’s the estimate in Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis of upstream oil and gas projects expected to reach final investment decisions (FIDs) in 2024.
And who stands to gain by all this spend? Oil and gas service companies — still the world’s worst performing sector over the last 10 years and still down some 80% from the start of 2012.
Philadelphia Oil and Gas Equipment and Services Index relative to S&P 500 indexed
Australia: Lights Out or Diesel?
This is Hegelian dialectic (an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth) at play in the land down under.
Let the lights go out (let our standard of living go backwards) or burn diesel (maintain our standard of living)? You guessed it…
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