The Wall Street Journal’s “Daily Shot” shows volume of trading for the new Shanghai oil futures contract, here...
AQR’s Cliff Asness talks to Bloomberg…
And it’s a pretty good
Options update…
A general summary of options trading over the past few days as prices have rallied could be this: call profit taking, with some rolling into higher
Cushing inventories are sharply lower than last year… EIA
Cushing inventories declined sharply from last year... Here is the EIA’s “This Week In Petroleum”: ”Crude oil inventories held at Cushing,
Global Supply Tightens… WSJ
Christopher Alessi, WSJ, quotes Commerzbank analysts, here... ””News that China is now also reducing its oil purchases from Iran presumably gave
Hedge funds add to length in energy markets… Kemp
John Kemp’s weekly summary of the CFTC Committment of Traders report, here, shows hedge funds adding length... The “as of” date is the 25th, so the



