Japan sends $36B flowing into U.S. energy
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:07.6 | It's good to be with you on this Wednesday, February 18th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:14.0 | Japan intends to invest $36 billion in U.S. oil, gas, and critical mineral projects. |
| 0:20.3 | This marks the first portion of its $550 billion |
| 0:23.9 | pledge under the trade deal, reach with President Trump. Most of the first wave of investment will go |
| 0:30.2 | towards the Portsmouth-powered land project in Ohio, which will generate 9.2 gigawatts of |
| 0:36.4 | electricity each year. It'll be operated by SB Energy, |
| 0:40.3 | which is a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group. Additionally, the White House said |
| 0:46.4 | Japan would invest in the $2.1 billion, Texas Gulf Link Deepwater crude oil export facility |
| 0:53.2 | off the Texas coast. At full capacity, the |
| 0:56.6 | export terminal is expected to generate $20 to $30 billion in annual U.S. crude exports. Meanwhile, |
| 1:03.7 | the White House said in a fact sheet that the high-pressure synthetic diamond plant valued at about |
| 1:09.5 | $600 million will be operated by Element 6. |
| 1:13.9 | The industrial diamond company is a unit of De Beers Group, the world's largest diamond producer. |
| 1:20.8 | YouTube experienced a major outage late Tuesday. The issue was with its recommendation system. |
| 1:26.9 | The company has since confirmed that |
| 1:29.1 | all platforms have returned to normal. The outage affected hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, |
| 1:36.1 | leading YouTube site to appear blank for some users with the no videos loading on the YouTube app, |
| 1:42.0 | music, and YouTube kids. YouTube said in an update that the issue with our recommendation system has been resolved, |
| 1:49.2 | and all of our platforms are back to normal. |
| 1:52.9 | Palantir Technology is confirmed on Tuesday that it has moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver. |
| 1:59.2 | The company made the one-sentence announcement and a post on |
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