Strait of Hormuz - Analysis

The U.S. president can move markets with a sentence. He can hint at talks, hint at peace, hint at imminent success, and each of those hints can put downward pressure on oil. Tehran can threaten, but Trump has the larger megaphone, the larger navy, and the stronger balance sheet.

China Successfully Operates World's First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor

By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice.com

An experimental Chinese nuclear plant reportedly just crossed a historic threshold, successfully operating the world’s first thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR). The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has broken a major scientific barrier by successfully converting thorium to uranium in a historic first.