Oil
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US Shale Production Has Started To Fall…
Oil Market Mayhem Is Spreading To June Contracts…
Too Much Oil With Nowhere To Put It…
WTI crude oil delivered to Cushing in May 2020 is trading below $0.00/bbl as this note is typed, and falling fast (Chart 1). This is an historical print. WTI for June delivery is trading at ~ $22.00/bbl. What we are observing is the last of the May 2020…
Lowering Our Demand Forecasts…
Highlights The May-June WTI spread settled earlier in the week at a $7.29/bbl contango, the widest level since February 2009 during the GFC. This reflects an extraordinarily tight storage market in the US Gulf and Midcontinent. WTI for May delivery…
Highlights Stay tactically neutral to equities. The market may meet some short-term resistance, especially as a slew of poor earnings are released in the coming weeks. The long-term threat to equities comes from the pandemic’s lasting after-effects, such…
Highlights Oil prices are up strongly from their lows, but conditions for a durable bottom may not yet be in place. The main hiccup is that an air pocket will likely remain under global oil demand until most social-distancing measures are lifted. That…
Changes Are Coming To The Oil Market…