The U.S. crude oil and natural gas renaissance, in one panel chart...
Source: Mason Hamilton, API
Inflation expectations have diverged from crude oil prices.
Source: The Daily Shot
Another poor US Treasuries auction yesterday.
This was the trigger that pushed yields higher (despite oil prices crashing -6%...) Bond yields no longer have much to do with how strong/weak the economy is. It’s all about deficits, high government spending, and huge Treasury auctions. Source: QE infinity
With oil at $68, Russian FX reserves at/near all-time highs while Russian foreign debt, in USD, at 12+ year lows...
Source: Macrobond
Washington Post: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Biden administration he is willing to strike military rather than oil or nuclear facilities in Iran.
Oil gaps down on the new 👇 Source: Markets & Mayhem
BREAKING: Oil prices surge back above $70/barrel as investors begin pricing-in potential supply disruptions in the Middle East.
We now have a port strike, rising oil prices, aggressive Fed rate cuts and a china monetary + fiscal package. Could this combination trigger a second wave of inflation?
Investors are currently holding one of the lowest long positions in WTI oil contracts in the last ten years.
Surce; Bloomberg, Tavi Costa
⚠️GLOBAL OIL DEMAND GROWTh FELL TO THE LOWEST SINCE THE COVID CRISIS⚠️
World consumption rose by 800,000 barrels a day in H1 2024, a 1/3 of the growth seen in H1 2023. THE LOWEST rate since demand crashed in 2020... Source: Global Markets Investor
