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Traders including Trafigura, Vitol, Litasco and Glencore chartered supertankers to store crude and diesel at sea as onshore storage neared capacity. Unsold gasoil and diesel volumes were especially high after a modest summer recovery, and Brent was trading near $40.
Floating storage builds signal oversupply and a contango-like pressure that weighs on crude and diesel prices, pointing to continued softness in energy costs.
financialpost.comReutersSep 9, 2020After 312 past bearish macro events, BRENT moved a median -1.7% over 5 sessions (38% higher; middle half -5.4% to +2.3%), and -1.7% over 20.
After 79 past bearish macro events, DIESEL moved a median -1.0% over 5 sessions (39% higher; middle half -5.7% to +1.7%), and -1.5% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
