Update:
After a very quick statement from President Trump, who vowed that “from now on, those who break the rules will face consequences,” Wilbur Ross, Peter Navarro and Vice President Pence also made brief statements to the press regarding the new administration's executive orders on trade. Here were the key headlines:
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
For the 11th week in a row, the number of US oil rigs rose (up 10 to 662 - the highest since September 2015). US Crude production continues to track the lagged rig count, pouring more cold water on OPEC's production cut party.
The rig count grows, tracking the lagged oil price in a self-defeating cycle...
And crude production appears to have plenty more room to run...
And don't forget, as Nick Cunningham detailed, there are thousands of drilled shale wells are sitting idle, unfracked and uncompleted.
While few predicted the stock market surge should Trump get elected, virtually everyone anticipated a thawing of relations between Russia and the US if Donald Trump were to occupy the White House. And yet, 5 months later, the opposite has happened: stocks are just shy of the record 2,400 while relations between the Kremlin and the White House, despite all the rhetoric of Trump being an extended KGB agent or whatever the NYT/WaPo unsubstantiated narrative of the day is, have remained abysmal with no hope of improvement in sight.
In a reminder that Donald Trump's trade policies - at least as he represented in the past, before surrounding himself with ex-Goldman globalists - are largely protectionist, on Friday, the US President will sign executive orders aimed at "identifying abuses" that are causing "massive U.S. trade deficits" and clamp down on non-payment of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports, his top trade officials said quoted by Reuters.