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Exxon Weighs Woodside Deal As LNG Becomes Strategic Priority Exxon Mobil is assessing a range of options to expand its global gas business, with Woodside Energy reportedly among the companies being reviewed as potential acquisition candidates, according to Bloomberg. No formal approach has been made, and internal evaluations remain preliminary. Both companies have declined to comment. Bloomberg writes that Woodside offers several strategic advantages for Exxon. As a leading LNG producer with established relationships across key Asian markets, the Australian company would provide immediate scale in a sector where Exxon has historically...

International Energy Agency Is Wrong To Forecast Coal's Demise Authored by Tom Harris via The Epoch Times, Activists would have us believe that coal is a dying energy source. But, thankfully for American coal states such as West Virginia and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia—all of which use millions of tonnes of coal every year to generate electricity—that is not even remotely true. However, the world is burning more coal now than ever, reaching a record 8.85 billion metric tonnes annual consumption by the end of 2025. Since 2020, annual coal...

March Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Soar By 178K Most Since 2024, Blowing Away All Estimates; Unemployment Rate Drops We titled our nonfarm payroll preview post "a substantial bounce" and boy were we right: with consensus expecting a material rebound from February's negative print (which was revised as usual worse, from -92K to -133K), what the BLS reported instead was a huge beat to expectations of a 65K increase, with March jobs reportedly rising by 178K, the biggest increase since December 2024. The number was driven entirely by a surge in private workers...