The Merchant's News
The Merchant's News is a newsletter by Giacomo Prandelli covering oil, gas, LNG, metals, and geopolitics, with practical insights on sectors, trade flows, and commodity-linked stocks.
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Most-mentioned tickers
Symbols named in the headline of a post from the last 30 days, most-covered first. The number is how many of those posts mentioned it.
Read from 4 post headlines in the last 30 days. A newsletter that names a company only in the body of a post will not appear here, and a mention is not a recommendation — it only means the symbol came up.
Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
16K on Sep 10, 2026 → 16K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #189 today · #192 a week ago · #178 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 42 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 36%
- Best rank seen
- #175
- Rank, 7 days
- +3 places
- Rank, 30 days
- −11 places
- Followers added
- +868
- Posts
- 11
- Reactions per post
- 24
- Reactions tracked
- 619
- Tickers covered
- 1
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Sep 14, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 26 posts
in tracked posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: The Everything Shortage — 45 reactions on Aug 26, 2026.
Recent posts
- Ship Fuel Doubled In 2026. Who Pays And Who Collects?
- Every Tanker Hit In Hormuz Is An Order For China’s Shipyards
- BP Just Cut $8 Billion Of Debt, Is It Fixed?
- How Long Can The Tanker Boom Last?
- Has Petrobras Priced In Too Much?
- The Merchant's Book (10/26)
- Can Brent Go Back To $90 Before The Midterms?
- What Are The Traders Buying?
- Can Washington Have It All?
- Why A 1 Billion EU Company Is Betting On The Next LNG Infrastructure?
- Is OPEC Losing Control?
- If China Refines The World Out Of This, Who Gets Paid?
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