US Crude Oil and Refined Product Inventory Update – William Lacey

I think I finally understand what Liberation Day stood for. The liberation of all of my savings from me. Hooray! I didn’t want it anyway…

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Now, on to our regularly scheduled programming.

Yesterday the API reported that crude oil and refined products both saw a net draw on stock levels, showing a total draw of 2.7 million barrels. Today, the EIA reported their survey results and showed a similar net outcome to the API data, albeit from a very different direction with oil showing a big build (bad) and refined products showing a big draw (good). Both these results (API and EIA) were in aggregate bullish versus consensus.

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The fact of the matter is that none of this matters with Trump and his Tariffpalooza, where you have the United States (#1 economy) and China (#2 economy) continuing to trade incremental tariffs back and forth, with the rest of the world looking on in anxious trepidation.

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