Canadian oil prices should bounce back soon

The capacity constraints affecting cross-border pipelines and outages at major US refineries have caused a backup in Canadian oil inventories, temporarily depressing Canadian oil prices. But as these pipeline restrictions ease and US refineries come back on stream, we expect domestic oil price spreads to narrow again fairly soon.

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