Alex Griffiths and Renate Featherstone, from the Wood Mackenzie steel markets team, discuss the global response to the US Department of Commerce’s results on the investigations carried out under section 232 into the impact on national security from imports of steel.

We discuss earnings season for the US E&Ps, and why many that reported last week saw their share prices fall.

Norman Valentine, Research Director, and Greg Roddick, Principal Analyst, from Wood Mackenzie’s Corporate team, discuss Woodside’s Scarborough deal and the broader outlook for the LNG sector.

This week we spoke to Julian Kettle, Vice Chairman , Metals & Mining, about the metals above and below Wood Mackenzie's long-term price expectations:

- Zinc and aluminium: is there exuberance in the market?

- Met coal and iron ore: waiting for the correction

- Nickel and copper await their rallies

Andy McConn, Norman Valentine and Luke Parker discuss the big theme of Q4 reporting season – rising shareholder distributions.

Valentina Kretzschmar, Director – Corporate Research and Tom Ellacott, SVP – Corporate Research, discuss our latest Chevron corporate report.

Ruaraidh Montgomery, Principal Corporate Analyst, and Dat Ngo, Corporate Data Analyst, discuss the results and big winners from Mexico’s latest licensing round success.

Jan 2018 has been a busy month for M&A. What started with PERTAMINA’s merger with PGN, soon spread to ONGC, AWE and PTTEP. We examine the deals announced in the region and provide the wider context behind these moves.

What to look for in Q4 2017 results by Wood Mackenzie

This week, we spoke to Adrian Gardner, Principal Nickel Analyst, about the outlook for nickel. We discussed:

• The increasingly clear path for Indonesian NPI production and the shift in its offtakers

• A quick tutorial on nickel products, what downstream battery producers want and what the miners are producing

• The outlook for Chinese electric vehicle subsidies and the impact on nickel imports

• A wrap up on the nickel price outlook