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• Progress reported in Israel–Hamas cease-fire deal
  US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan suggested on CNN that a temporary...
  US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan suggested on CNN that a temporary cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas could be reached “in the coming days”—one that involves the freeing of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was more tempered, telling CBS that Hamas would have to abandon their “crazy demands” for a deal to be finalized. Elsewhere in the Middle East, US and UK forces carried out another round of strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the militant group’s attacks on commercial shipping.
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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Monday Morning
  It’s the Golden Corral of earnings weeks. An endless variety of companies...
  It’s the Golden Corral of earnings weeks. An endless variety of companies will report their Q4 results, including Macy’s, Domino’s, Zoom, Birkenstock, Salesforce, AMC, and Cava.
  
  Leap Day is on Thursday. Happy birthday to all the leap babies, aka the only people excited that February is longer than usual.
  
  AT&T said it will issue a $5 credit to “potentially impacted” wireless customers following its hourslong outage on Thursday.
  
  Intuitive Machines said its Odysseus spacecraft was “alive and well” but spent the weekend on the moon resting on its side. The most relatable moon lander ever?
  
  BYD is taking luxury EVs to new levels with its Yangwang U9, which it introduced Sunday with a sticker price of $233,450.
  
  Flaco, NYC’s celebrity owl that was freed from his cage by a vandal in Central Park Zoo last year, died after colliding with a building on the Upper West Side.
  
  The Florida Man Games took place over the weekend. Men in tank tops and jorts competed in events that included wrestling while holding pitchers of beer and running from the police in an “evading arrest” obstacle course.
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• Cheniere Energy expects lower profits as natural gas prices continue their fall
  Cheniere Energy, the energy firm with a major natural gas line extending...
  Cheniere Energy, the energy firm with a major natural gas line extending from Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP plays and also the biggest U.S. buyer of gas and the biggest U.S. exporter of LNG, forecast a lower core profit for 2024.
  
  Just as Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy lowered its capital expenditures for natural gas exploration because of what’s happened to the natural gas market, Cheniere Energy is under the same kind of financial pressure. Natural gas prices dropped nearly 40% in 2023.
  
  As a result, Cheniere Energy explained it plans to cut 2024 production by nearly 30%.
  
  Cheniere’s profit plunged 65% to $1.38 billion after LNG revenue was cut in half to $4.58 billion when Hernry Hub pricing plunged. The plunge occurred after Cheniere installed its major Midship natural gas pipeline to carry gas from near Kingfisher in Oklahoma’s STACK play and south to the state line.
  
  Source: OK Energy Today
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• US drillers add most oil rigs in a week since November
  (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week added the most oil rigs since...
  (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week added the most oil rigs since November, and the most in a month since October 2022, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday.  Despite this week's rig increase, Baker Hughes said the total count was still down 127, or 17% below this time last year
  
  The combined oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose by five to 626 in the week to Feb. 23, its highest since August 2023..
  
  Baker Hughes said U.S. oil rigs rose six to 503 this week, while gas rigs fell one to 120, their lowest since Feb. 2.
  
  For the month, the total rig count rose by five, the biggest increase since November 2022, while separately, the oil rig count was up by four and the gas rig count rose by one.
  
  
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• 8 corn states get EPA nod to expand E15 gasoline sales
  The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule to allow year-round sales of gasoline with 15%...
  The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a rule to allow year-round sales of gasoline with 15% ethanol content in eight Midwestern states starting April 28, 2025, approving a request from those states' governors. The American Petroleum Institute is advocating for the passage of bipartisan legislation enabling year-round sales of E15 gasoline nationwide, with API Vice President of Downstream Policy Will Hupman expressing concerns that a "piecemeal approach could weaken the resiliency of the region's fuel supply chain."
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