Oil price6 Dec 2022 18:44
The financial oil market has been manipulated all year with historical SPR releases and effectively a purchasing cartel forming to fix the Russian oil price cap add to this the market trying to price in a recession and repeated Chinese Covid restrictions, it’s not surprising short term price volatility will dominate the price action, however this does not price in the reality long term storage facility’s are at low levels, China will have to reopen for business as the internal economy is under pressure not to mention the riots, Russia still to make a statement on how they intend to respond to the price cap which you can not discount a move to cut supply, als a move to generate electricity burning oil as an alternative to Gas is in the pipeline. The market has been locking in profits from a very strong year due energy stocks and commodities to book the year end bonuses for the fund managers they start from zero again in January would not be surprising to see a move back into the sector and talk of tightening supply moving forward with another year of dividends to come