Naphtha & Gasoline reports
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Long Oct/Nov 380 Oil stocks in Fujairah have dropped to a 10-month low. Plus demand falling after peak summer power generation for air conditioning. Oct/Nov price has fallen from $8.75 a few days ago and this trade suggestion is to
The Dated Brent market saw an impressive rally and was buoyed to even further heights after a very brief foray into contango territory. To borrow from the IEA, the market saw “Olympic levels of volatility” in the past month. Demonstrating
The October Brent futures flat price trended lower on Tuesday afternoon, falling by over $1 after hitting resistance at the $82/bbl level, reaching lows of $80.62/bbl at 17:07 BST, and trading at $80.81/bbl at 17:30 BST (time of writing). The
We continue to see strength across the naphtha complex, although we appear to now be approaching the dangerous realm of potential buy-side saturation with rising selling in naphtha cracks in Europe, alongside selling in the E/W.
The strength emerged from a pitiful Dubai complex riddled with selling flow on the back of bearish macroeconomic data and the sell-off within wider risk assets
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The Oct’24 Brent futures flat price started the day on a bullish front and rallied past the $80/bbl handle. The benchmark crude futures contract was observed sitting just below $80.40/bbl as of 11:35 BST (time of writing).
Short Sep 0.5% Sing Crack -The Asian LSFO has seen strength in the last few days with above average bunkering activity. However we have observed that Al-Zour refinery exports are expecting to increase with summer power generation demand typically cooling
The October Brent futures flat price accelerated its rally on Monday afternoon, cruising past $81/bbl and trading at $81.18/bbl at 17:00 BST (time of writing). Price action has extended last week’s gains, with US recession fears easing and Middle Eastern
Last week, the Oct’24 Brent futures witnessed a significant sell-off, following which sentiment recovered. The benchmark crude futures contract went from $76.30/bbl on 06 Aug to $80.40/bbl on 12 Aug (at the time of writing).
It was a bearish week for global crude benchmarks (Brent + WTI), which also suffered from the fallout from the sell-off in global risk assets following a weak US employment data report and the unwinding of the Japanese Yen carry
The Oct’24 Brent futures flat price started the day on a bullish front and rallied past the $80/bbl handle. The benchmark crude futures contract was observed sitting just below $80.40/bbl as of 11:35 BST (time of writing).
The Oct’24 Brent futures witnessed a largely rangebound afternoon, with the flat price first falling from $79.50/bbl at 13:10 BST to $78.85/bbl around 15:10 BST, only to firm up to $79.70/bbl at 17:25 BST (time of writing).
In HSFO over the past fortnight, we saw price action appear fairly unsettled alongside enduring relative Asian strength.
The Oct’24 Brent futures contract hit $77.75/bbl at 10:45 BST, following which prices firmed up to $79.05/bbl at 17:35 BST (time of writing).
