RE: RE: DBNO3 Sep 2019 11:12
Opec are doing what's fundamentally required to balance to oil market, but they cannot stop the large banks, hedge funds, algo bots from shorting the price down. Until that changes or we have a shortage of oil then this manipulation will continue.
Remember this time last year when they said we have zero oil buffer as everyone was flat out producing and we cannot keep up with demand ! Then Trump came out with China Tariff's and let Iran off the hook - within a week or so we had the media saying the world is back to massive over supply ! Brent went from $85bbl on the 4th October to $49 by December the 23rd. Oil consumption hadn't change during that period, China were still buying at record levels., still buying at the same levels now !
So was the oil price manipulated up in 2018 or has it been manipulated down in 2019 ?