Anyone balls deep in commodities is necessarily deeply interested in the trends for commodities that are below them in the stack, such as energy.

Because it's part of the economy! All sorts of non-intellectual goods make up the economy. We eat sausage, sausage comes from abroad, Germans can't make sausage because of Russian gas drop off, etc.

Because they have a vested interest in understanding the parts of the global economy that affect their competitors.

The LNG price graph shown a few minutes from the given timestamp is very relevant.

I’m sure the CME a few hundred miles away is listening loud and clear and they certainly have a stake.