If President Trump announces today that the United States is pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, without concessions, there will be winners and losers. As for Trump himself, that's a tough one. While it's hard to see how he wins, that's often the case: It's generally hard to see how he wins. Russia and Vladimir Putin, which, nearly neutered by low oil prices over the last decade, have been forced to rely primarily on bluster to assert themselves on the global stage. The players in the U.S. hydraulic fracturing industry, at least those who survived dismally low oil prices along with Putin and Middle Eastern oligarchs earlier this decade.

Source: Forbes May 08, 2018 04:43 UTC