Список проголосовавших за комментарий " Crude rallies for a 3rd consecutive session on a bullish IEA report which showed 90% OPEC compliance & an increased oil demand growth forecast for FY17; gold extends losses<ul><li><strong>Crude rallied for a 3rd session in a row on a bullish IEA report which showed 90% OPEC output cut compliance & an increased oil demand growth forecast</strong><ul><li>Mar 2017 crude oil futures were up about $0.79 (+1.5%) around the $53.79/barrel level</li><li>IEA monthly oil market report highlights:<ul><li><strong>OPEC is currently at 90% compliance with their portion of the coordinated OPEC/non-OPEC output reduction agreement.</strong></li><li>Saudi Arabia exceeded their portion of the promised 490k barrel/day reduction by 70k barrels/day. Angola & Qatar also cut more than originally expected.</li><li>IEA also stated the global oil stocks overhang that has weighed on prices should fall by about 600k barrels per day in the next 6 months.</li><li><strong>IEA raised global oil demand growth expectations for 2017 to 1.4 mln bpd, up 100k bpd from their previous estimate.<br/> </strong></li><li>Global oil supplies plunged nearly 1.5 mb/d in Jan, both OPEC and non-OPEC countries produced less.</li><li>At 96.4 mb/d, world oil production stood 730 kb/d below a year ago, with OPEC posting its first y/y decline since early 2015.</li><li><strong>Lower production was partly offset by higher flows from Libya and Nigeria, which are exempt from cuts.</strong></li><li>After falling by 0.8 mb/d last year, non-OPEC output is expected grow by 0.4 mb/d in 2017.</li></ul></li><li>Rig count data will be released today at 1 pm ET.<ul><li>Last week's data showed a US oil rig count increase for the third consecutive week in a row.</li><li><strong>US oil rigs have been added for 13 out of the past 14 weeks.</strong></li><li>The number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil rose by 17 to 583 rigs last week.</li><li>The rig count is at its highest level since Oct 2015.</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><strong>In precious metals, gold extended yesterday's retreat from Wednesday's 3-month high on a continuation rally in the dollar index</strong><ul><li>April 2017 gold futures were down about $3.00 (-0.2%) around the $1233.70/oz level</li><li>Mar 2017 silver futures were up about $0.08 (+0.5%) around the $17.88/oz level</li></ul></li><li><strong>Natural gas gave up all of yesterday's post-EIA gains in morning pit trading</strong><ul><li>Mar 2017 natural gas futures were down about $0.09 (-2.9%) around the $3.05/MMBtu level</li></ul></li><li><strong>The dollar index was +0.2% around the 100.82 level, weighed on gold futures</strong><ul><li>Commodities, as measured by the Bloomberg Commodity Index, were up about +0.9% around the 89.32</li></ul></li><li><strong>Base metal copper surged +4% in morning pit trading</strong><ul><li>Copper futures were up about $0.11 (+4.1%) around the $2.76/lb level</li></ul></li></ul>"