Welcome to The Brink . We’re Lars Paulsson and Giulia Morpurgo , and we’ve been reporting on the cash crunch at Stegra, a green steelmaker based in Sweden. We also have news on MFS, Conair, and confidential oil contracts in Venezuela. Follow this link to subscribe . Send us feedback and tips at debtnews@bloomberg.net . Cash Crunch Time is running out for green steelmaker Stegra . The Swedish start...
Welcome to The Brink . We’re Lars Paulsson and Giulia Morpurgo , and we’ve been reporting on the cash crunch at Stegra, a green steelmaker based in Sweden. We also have news on MFS, Conair, and confidential oil contracts in Venezuela. Follow this link to subscribe . Send us feedback and tips at debtnews@bloomberg.net . Cash Crunch Time is running out for green steelmaker Stegra . The Swedish startup has just weeks before it runs out of cash, forcing it into an urgent search for roughly €1 billion in fresh equity while it seeks to unlock billions more in previously secured credit lines . The six-year-old company needs funding to complete what it has billed as the world’s largest green steel plant in northern Sweden. Without a solution by the end of March, the project risks stalling at a critical stage. Stegra has been in talks with both existing shareholders and potential new investors since October, when it disclosed that it required additional capital to complete the project. While some current backers have agreed to participate in the latest funding round, commitments so far fall short of the target. The company is now widening its search for new equity partners to close the gap. At the same time, the company is negotiating with banks to access more than €4 billion in credit lines that have been committed in recent years but not fully drawn. Those facilities are tied to specific conditions and construction milestones that the company has yet to meet. Discussions are ongoing, and the outcome remains uncertain. The funding squeeze underscores a broader shift in investor sentiment toward capital-intensive green industrial projects. Sweden’s Northvolt , once seen as Europe’s best hope for building a domestic battery supply chain, went bankrupt last year after failing to secure sufficient backing, prompting criticism of the government for declining to step in. Both companies are emblematic of Europe’s push to build domestic industrial champions at scale, and both relie...
Get ahead of the market by subscribing to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Week Ahead, a preview of key events scheduled for the coming week. The newsletter keeps you informed of the biggest stories set to make headlines, including upcoming IPOs, investor days, earnings reports, and conference presentations. The stock market was deep in the red on Friday, as the nonfarm payrolls unexpectedly contracted...
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Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images I previously covered Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras ( PBR ) in January 2026, discussing why I had reiterated my Buy rating then, thanks to the management's relatively successful mitigation efforts across the volatile spot prices, the challenging macroeconomic/geopolitical environment, and the reasonable 5Y investment plan. In this article, I shall discus...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images I previously covered Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras ( PBR ) in January 2026, discussing why I had reiterated my Buy rating then, thanks to the management's relatively successful mitigation efforts across the volatile spot prices, the challenging macroeconomic/geopolitical environment, and the reasonable 5Y investment plan. In this article, I shall discuss why I am reiterating my Buy rating for the PBR stock, despite the potential volatility from the ongoing Iran conflict and the stock's overstretched technical indicators. My optimism is attributed to PBR's rich dividend investment thesis, thanks to the stock's discounted valuations arising from its state run status, their low, capex breakeven costs, the growing production capacity from the higher capex trends, and the currently elevated Brent spot prices. PBR Stands To Benefit From The Higher Spot Prices PBR 1Y Stock Price (Trading View) Since my last Buy rating, PBR has outperformed beyond expectations with a +40% stock price rally, with a similar trend also observed in its US-based oil/gas peers in varying degrees. Much of their tailwinds are attributed to the rising Brent oil spot prices from $58s per barrel in early January 2026 to $91s per barrel by the time of writing, given the geopolitical unrest in Venezuela in early January 2026 and the " major combat operations in Iran " in late February 2026. These are unsurprising developments indeed, since Venezuela comprises " 9% of the world's 9 million bbl/d of heavy crude oil production" and Iran at " 4% of global oil production ," with the ongoing volatilities potentially triggering an impacted demand supply cadence in the intermediate term. With the US president already warning the war against Iran may "stretch on for four to five weeks or longer" and the consequent, near-total shutdown of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz (transporting 20% of the world's oil and LNG supplies ), it is unsurprising that market analyst...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is committing over $100 billion to AI infrastructure, and the market is questioning whether this is visionary or excessive. If Azure monetization accelerates and Maia improves inference economics, the long-term compounding story strengthens dramatically. But if spending outpaces returns, volatility could test investor conviction in 2026 and beyond. Stock prices used were t...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is committing over $100 billion to AI infrastructure, and the market is questioning whether this is visionary or excessive. If Azure monetization accelerates and Maia improves inference economics, the long-term compounding story strengthens dramatically. But if spending outpaces returns, volatility could test investor conviction in 2026 and beyond. Stock prices used were the market prices of March 2, 2026. The video was published on March 6, 2026. Continue reading