Time spreads discount SPR release risk
Crude prices weakened, to reach 79.4 $/b for ICE Brent January contracts, as Biden tried to convince other countries to release crude from their domestic SPR.…
Crude prices continued to be lifted by a declining US dollar, while the Libyan national oil company declared force majeure on its Hariga port due to budget disputes with the country’s central bank. Backwardation levels on the Brent curve are now at healthy levels to incentivize stock draws.
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