The always worth listening to Fatih Birol talks to Bloomberg, here... He sees weak demand and a well supplied market keeping prices muted...
Currency vol at record levels… Bloomberg
Sam Potter and Anchalee Worrachate, Bloomberg, discuss record low volatility in currency markets, here...
Products build sharply this week… EIA
From the EIA’s This Week In Petroleum, gasoline and distillate stocks have moved sharply higher in the past 2 weeks (Andy mentioned this in our
EIA’s supply/Demand balance in a chart… EIA
Note the expected build in 1H of 2020... Here is the link...
Podcast: January 2020 Oil Market Analysis
Commodity Research Group (CRG) is an independent research consultancy specializing in base and precious metals, as well energy products. The Group
The sleeping “widowmaker”… NatGas version
March/April natural gas moved into flat/negative territory... Lots of supply, warm weather will do this... Note the CME chart below showing open
The “three-way” options hedge… Reuters
Reuters reports on Occidental’s “three-way” options hedge, that is, selling calls against buying a put spread... This hedging/trading strategy goes
Hedge Funds/S&P returns… Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem has a nice chart comparing hedge fund returns to the S&P over time:
Oil, US GDP… FT
Gillian Tett, Financial Times, has a nice piece on the energy piece of GDP in the US, here... “There is a second, less-heralded factor at play: the






