Daily LNG price update (dead King)

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The big news is King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has died, from the FT:

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s ruler since 2005, has died aged 91, state television announced on Friday morning local time.

A cautious reformer whose ascendancy to the throne helped restore some popular legitimacy to the al-Saud family, he steered the world’s largest oil exporter through some of its most fraught times.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.