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MBCC TH 15th March'23 - "Oil is now trading < $78/bbl. today, why? OPEC put and Fed put not active..."

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Maleeha Bengali
Mar 15, 2023
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Since May 2022, oil bulls are still holding onto their conviction of $100-$120/bbl. oil based on:

  1. Less Russian supply (they pumped more, not less)

  2. China reopening demand surge (never came)

  3. Oil export bans (India / china making more $)

  4. Lack of spare capacity argument (UAE are itching to pump more not less)

Not one has been working, yet they still hold on? Hope is not a strategy. These are great academic arguments, but trading is different as by the time academics adjust their numbers, prices have already moved 40% or so..too late…

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