MBS escalated the oil-price war AFTER talking to Trump.

[MelissaB]

Scoop: Trump’s call to Saudi Crown Prince MBS was *before* the Saudi production hike was announced this morning — meaning MBS escalated the oil-price war after talking to Trump.

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I'm out of clicks, but here is the Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/putin-and-mbs-draw-trump-into-grudge-match-for-oil-supremacy

[exboyfil]

1. But I covered for you when you dismembered that journalist

[sandensea]

2. The Fat Bastard plans on running on $1.90 a-gallon gas - which is ALL he has left now.

[uponit7771]

3. Russia & SA want to hurt US Shale output. It sky rocketed under Obama so of course Trussia hates it

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. US shale output is responsible for making climate change a lot worse than it would be otherwise

fracking has led to a spike in atmospheric methane (methane is 86x more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2): https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2019/08/fracking-boom-tied-methane-spike-earths-atmosphere

[Coleman]

4. But the whole fight is about driving US shale oil companies out of business and

do damage to Russian oil industry since Russia chose to cut prices to hurt the US oil industry, whil OPEC increased production instead. If IQ45 made a deal, Putin is going to be upset.

[MLAA]

5. No doubt impotus made money of this 'insider info' in the stock market

[AwakeAtLast]

10. This. This is the correct answer. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Reckless and unscientific. What could go wrong.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. The Saudi's fooled the world once again.

When they did the Aramco Oil IPO,one knew there was this possibility was or could happen. They raised more than a trillion dollars which gives them a financial Cushion to prevent a Overthrow of the King as well as support their Political Causes around the World.

One of Bloomberg's Oil Economic Guru's predicted this last November or December. Yes,they wanted to hit the Shale Guy's,but,what is interesting is,the Saudi and Other Soverign Wealth Funds in the Middle east hold those junk rated bonds issued by the Shale Drillers.

[Hekate]

8. Oh my. It's really something when I start passing my iPad over to my husband because DU ...

...has financial news. (Basically he said what Rex Tillerson said about Trump.)

The other one was just when the stock markets started to really tank & I read something here -- he ran to the computer to confirm and immediately canceled a bunch of stuff he'd recently initiated.

Thank, DU.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I bet this "perfect phone call" also included "But I need you to do me a favor, though".