Here is the breakdown, courtesy of Reuters.
Commercial crude stocks -2.4 million bbl to 486 million bbl last week, now +32 million bbl (+7.1%) above prior year level
Crude imports jumped last week to 8.3 million b/d, up from 7.5 million b/d the prior week.
Gasoline stocks rose +3.4 million bbl to 230 million bbl last week and are now +11.9 million bbl (+5.4%) above 2015 level:
Distillate stocks rose +2.5 million bbl to 157 million last wk at time of year when they would normally be falling thanks to warm weather
As Bloomberg notes, demand for petroleum products fell to the lowest levels since February. Not uncommon for this time of year.
As the US rig count continues to rise so the trend of US crude production has turned, but it dropped very modestly over the last week...
And the reaction in crude (after overnight weakness but energy stock strength) was evident, breaking back below $50...
Energy stocks — which were up almost 1% with oil already lower — have tumbled back to unch...
In context, OPEC deal gains are disappearing..
Notably the surge in Cushing inventories has put more pressure on the front-month spread...
это ж надо проглотить такое фуфло — если инопланетяне неОПЕК сократят на 600, то мы сократим на 1200… бугагашки!
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