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2019-06-01 Economy

Oil falls over 3% on fresh trade worries, posts biggest monthly drop in six months

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-01 00:14|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...And as I mentioned yesterday, the Iranians did their best to booga-booga the market, and it still went down.

This has got to have some turbans exploding.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-06-01 08:12|| 2019-06-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 It was your comment yesterday, Mike, that led me to notice and post this article. And, with a bit of a delay, the same thing is going to happen to rare earths, now that it’s worthwhile for others to supply what China has started playing games with.

Mr. Wife pointed out to me that it would take two to three years for the plant being built in Texas to get up and running — getting factories up and running is one of his areas of expertise — but I saw something last night about another supplier in Australia...

Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-01 09:40|| 2019-06-01 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 It was Skidmarks’ comment here. My memory for details isn’t very good at four in the morning, it seems. The Australian company wants in on the Texas plant, not to build a new one at home, But even so, it’s the first pebble of the avalanche.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-01 10:19|| 2019-06-01 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 BBC - "From where I'm standing, the city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic sludge."

Posted by Frank G 2019-06-01 11:21|| 2019-06-01 11:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ...thus the beginning of the SciFi movie.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-01 12:02|| 2019-06-01 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 You would never know it in Democratic Illinois with taxes on taxes.

Posted by 3dc 2019-06-01 15:28|| 2019-06-01 15:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Filled my the tank of my pickup truck in Hudson Oaks, TX today, $1.99/gal.

Posted by Cleager Schwarzeneggar4244 2019-06-01 19:51|| 2019-06-01 19:51|| Front Page Top

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