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Where are they today?

Simon Constable of Forbes and Barons in the Wall Street Journal and other distinguished publications

is in the South of France watching commodities as one year ago he watched the same commodities when he was yet in Scotland.

Simon, a very good day to you.

The commodity story was the great concern not only through the early months of the war,

but especially after the cutoff of Russian natural gas to Europe.

The electricity prices across all of Europe and in Scotland and in Britain were to skyrocket.

People were to be huddled around warming rooms. We were going to go medieval.

Not only has that not happened, but also the commodity report one year later.

No one could have predicted this 12 months ago.

So let us begin with energy commodities.

Oil and natural gas. Good evening to you, Simon.

Good evening to you, John.

It's been quite a ride.

The beginning and the end are actually the good bits of it.

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