Oil Surges Above $50 On Heavy Volume As Market Digests OPEC Report

Ok, dammit: oil is on the move.

OPEC was out with its latest monthly report this morning and frankly, I’m sick to death of covering that damn thing, because it’s like reading a drug cartel prospectus only without the drugs. In other words: it’s boring.

So let’s just stick with the bullet points. Here they are:

OPEC RAISES PROJECTIONS FOR GLOBAL OIL DEMAND IN 2017, 2018
OIL DEMAND IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES BEAT EXPECTATIONS IN 2Q: OPEC
OPEC LOWERS ESTIMATES FOR RIVAL SUPPLY IN 2017, 2018: REPORT
OPEC RAISES ESTIMATES OF DEMAND FOR ITS CRUDE IN 2017, 2018

All of that’s bullish. Or at least ostensibly bullish. But this isn’t:

Rebound in Libyan production pushed group’s output to 32.87m b/d, the highest this year; country’s output rose by 154.3k b/d to ~1m b/d

But we already kinda knew that.

Well overnight, Brent moved above $53/bbl, as the front of the curve strengthens following yesterday’s reported U.S. inventory draw. “On ICE you have the whole Brent structure strengthening which doesn’t bode too badly for the next days or weeks,” Tamas Varga, analyst at PVM Oil Associates noted, adding that “on the WTI side, yesterday’s stock data was positive.”

So in other words: fuck that gasoline build.

Which brings us to… well… it bring us to now, and now is a time when WTI has just broken above $50 on ~10k lots of front month contracts moving in the minute prices pushed higher:

Brent also built on its gains, hitting a day-high at $53.59 – the highest since May 25.

Notably, this coincided with a dip in the dollar, probably occasioned by the PPI miss (if I was guessing) and as we all know, these moves in oil are prone to reversing themselves pretty much immediately, so take it for what it’s worth which probably isn’t much.

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One thought on “Oil Surges Above $50 On Heavy Volume As Market Digests OPEC Report”

Yawn, we should be moving away from the sh*t anyway, there are plenty of alternatives and more investment there would push us further into a real 21st century economy. The motor car drove right past the horse and buggy about this time last century. The oil industry’s yields are at a 5 barrels to 1 ratio not the 99 to 1 ratio at the turn of the century, profits are moving toward extinction (pun intended).

If we want to be honest the $$$ spent now to help ruin our planet is such a waste because the alternative is so much more efficient and becoming cheaper and cheaper. The end should be nigh.