The price of crude has recovered a little in the last few days, but hopes of a significant boost from a further loosening in global monetary policy are overdone. We are also sceptical of assertions that the recent weakness in prices is simply a seasonal phenomenon, and that the oil market is somehow (still) “fundamentally” tight regardless of the softness of demand.
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