Historybook: Louisiana Purchase finalized (1803); Sacagawea dies (1812); "It’s a Wonderful Life" released (1946); Astronomer Carl Sagan dies (1996); Space Force becomes sixth US armed forces branch (2019).
Donald Trump was barred from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot in Colorado after the state’s Supreme Court said he violated the 14th Amendment by inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. The Trump campaign said they will ask the US Supreme Court to reverse the state’s decision.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the country is ready for another pause in fighting to recover hostages held by Hamas and get more humanitarian aid to Gaza.
New investigations are detailing concerns with the Israel Defense Forces’ AI-based targeting technology, which is capable of rapidly generating potential airstrike targets.
Iceland warned that pollution could reach the capital city of Reykjavik by this morning after a volcano erupted in the southwest part of the country.
Homebuilding surged in November as mortgage rates came down, according to the Census Bureau.
Liberty Energy Joins US Wildcatters in Australian Shale
Pressure-pumper Liberty Energy Inc. has followed rig operator Helmerich & Payne (H&P)...
Pressure-pumper Liberty Energy Inc. has followed rig operator Helmerich & Payne (H&P) in U.S. wildcatters Bryan Sheffield and Dick Stoneburner’s development of Australian shale.
Liberty invested US$10 million in Australia-brd Tamboran Resources and plans to send a frac fleet to the play in the Beetaloo Basinnext year in northern Australia south of Darwin, Tamboran reported.
Liberty’s entry rounds out the upstream portion of Tamboran’s plan to develop the basin’s Marcellus-like rock—the Mid-Velkerri B—providing frac services in well completion post-H&P drilling.
The frac fleet is expected to arrive in 2024. H&P sent a modern rig, a FlexRig 3, to the play earlier this year.
Late night fire rips through Midland Petroleum Building
First responders, the Midland Police Department and the Midland Fire Department were...
First responders, the Midland Police Department and the Midland Fire Department were called to a fire located inside the historic Petroleum Building in downtown Midland during the evening hours on Monday.
According to reports, the fire was on the ninth floor of the building. The building owner, David Arrington, said that there were no injuries reported during the incident.
T. S. Hogan, a Montana attorney, rancher and oilman, came to the Permian Basin in 1925 and became active in the oil business. In 1927, Hogan announced the construction of the Petroleum Building.
The Petroleum Building was designed by the Fort Worth architect Wyatt C. Hendrick and completed in 1929. The building has long played a significant role in the history of Midland, as well as casting a significant role in the development of the city.
Trump is disqualified from the 2024 ballot, Colorado Supreme Court rules
Colorado’s top court ...
Colorado’s top court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald J. Trump is disqualified from holding office again because he engaged in insurrection with his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, an explosive ruling that is likely to put the basic contours of the 2024 election in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Trump’s campaign said immediately that it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court,a likelihood that the Colorado justices anticipated by putting their ruling on hold until January. And while Tuesday’s ruling applies only to one state, it could all but force the nation’s highest court to decide the question for all 50.
Inflation worries return after Red Sea shipping attacks
Recent attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea are reviving broader concerns about another outbreak...
Recent attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea are reviving broader concerns about another outbreak of inflation, particularly in Europe, and could threaten to undercut the financial market’s most important narrative of the new year.
The narrative, which took off with the Federal Reserve’s dovish pivot last week and continued to play out on Tuesday, is the idea that inflation will likely keep easing by enough to usher in a round of interest-rate cuts during 2024. Financial markets positioned for this immaculate disinflation scenario in several ways: Treasury yields finished mostly lower, traders clung to expectations for as many as five to seven quarter-point rate cuts next year in the U.S., and stocks closed higher again, with the S&P 500 SPX just shy of cracking a record set in January of 2022.
“The Red Sea events, on balance, affect Europe more than the U.S., which is mostly insulated, more self-sufficient and produces its own energy.But if they last long enough, stretching into a three- to six-month timeline, the U.S. could be affected and it would have a domino effect on other things,” said Derek Tang, an economist at Monetary Policy Analytics in Washington.
