... Adding to the pressure is a bumper roll of the $2.7 billion U.S. Oil Fund ETF. The fund holds about 20% of the May WTI contract and is set to move that position to the June contract over the coming days. (from Bloomberg)
The U.S. cut its 2020 oil production forecast by more than 1 million barrels a day, as collapsing crude prices and plummeting demand threaten to shutter production in the country’s biggest fields.
Production is expected to average 11.76 million barrels a day through December, down from a previous forecast of 12.99 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday. The agency also trimmed its 2021 output expectations by 1.6 million barrels a day to just over 11 million daily barrels...