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RE: LeoThread 2025-08-17 05:22

in LeoFinance2 months ago

producers. And some of that was from the banks and the refinancing. Some of it was from, you know, the oil patch became an attractive place for private equity firms to come into. And some of them have bought up a lot of assets. So cheap financing and some of it is around competition was a major part of that. So going forward and baked into our assumptions is moderate increases in interest rates over the coming years. We don't think interest rates are going back up to where they were. So you don't think interest rate, rising interest rates are going to put any kind of major cramp on this market? I think they have put a dampening effect on. They have also distinguished from the companies and the areas where people have been able to lower their, become more competitive. So when I look, one of the data points I look at, energy experts look at are rate counts, right? They come out once a week, you know, and when you unpack them, you see that it's mostly been in a couple of areas within the (33/45)