Companies to return more profits, if you like, to the investors. with regard to russian oil, the irony in a certain sense is that while president biden has not sanctioned the oil exports, the reality is russia is having a hard time selling its oil because customers are not buying it. they're doing their own sanctions programs in a certain sense, and furthermore, opec which has asked also, they do have spare capacity that they could ramp up pretty quickly, but they have chosen to stick with their program of very incremental increases as time goes forward. that's all combining together with the ...