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.
- Top in Finance
- #176
- Paid leaderboard
- #186
- Paid subscribers
- 100+ paid
- Badge
- Bestseller 100
- Followers
- 22K
- Paid plan
- $25/mo
- Recommends
- 18
other newsletters
Growth history
Subscribers (thousands, nightly)
16K on Sep 10, 2026 → 16K on Oct 21, 2026
Followers (thousands, nightly)
Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #176 today · #180 a week ago · #185 a month ago
Stats worth sharing
Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 62 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.
- Percentile
- Top 34%
- Best rank seen
- #168
- Rank, 7 days
- +4 places
- Rank, 30 days
- +9 places
- Followers added
- +1.4K
- Posts
- 10
- Reactions per post
- 23
- Reactions tracked
- 745
- Tickers covered
- 1
of 525 ranked finance newsletters
on Nov 9, 2026
since tracking began
last 30 days
average, recent posts
across 33 posts
in tracked posts
Most-reacted post we have seen: The Everything Shortage — 45 reactions on Aug 26, 2026.
Recent posts
- USA Voted Against $4 Gasoline, Oil Lost $22 In 3 Days. What Happens Now?
- Exxon And Chevron Made $303 Million A Day. Tomorrow's Vote Decides How Long It Lasts
- Europe Closed Its Refineries. Shell, BP And TotalEnergies Just Sent The $28 Billion Bill.
- Nat Gas Is $3 In America And $31 In Europe, Who Keeps The Money This Winter?
- Tech Made You Rich, Can Oil Keep You Rich?
- Canadian Oil Is $28 Cheaper Than American. Who Collects The Difference?
- Can Diesel End The War In Ukraine?
- 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?
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