RE:RE:EIA Inventories Report Massive Draw: 10.64 M bblsYes. Nearly every commodity is red today.
Good retail sales numbers lead to more hikes, so it deflated the indexes. Not a risk on day.
XLE is down about 2% in the US, and getting continued selling pressure, which our large Canadian oil companies mirror.
Realize also, gasoline and diesel normally drop in price this time of year, which act to push down crude prices.
The long term outlook for oil keeps looking better every day. We still have positive news with declining inventories, OPEC cutbacks of 1M bbls in November, and tankers being bombed by Iran.
Conditions are good for a possible bounce in oils this afternoon, or soon. Watching the divergence, as XLE broke the link with oil and is following the SP500.
I'm ready to add to positions that have had some nice retracement so far, MEG, BTE, CNQ, and HWX, for a trade if I see some good entries. Might even take a position on XLE, will see what it does if it leads the oils down.
newtonboy wrote: Never ceases to amaze me what geo- political events occur to keep O/G prices down dispite the on going demand and draw downs.