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Summary OPEC crude output was revised lower in October 2022 by 12 kb/d compared to last month’s report and November 2022 OPEC crude output was revised higher by 53 kb/d. OPEC output has increased by 1088 kb/d since December 2021, from 27883 kb/d to 28971 kb/d in December 2022. ...

Summary To ease market tightness, Strategic Petroleum Reserve levels were reduced by 218 million barrels, bringing inventories to their lowest levels since 1984. In Fall 2022, the administration announced a target price band for purchases: the U.S. Department of Energy is a buyer of for...

Summary What China's reopening could mean for oil demand and prices. Can China save oil from a slowing global economy? How warm weather managed to ease Europe's energy challenges. As China’s economy reopens, there is speculation the country’s demand f...

Summary Resource equities exhibited strong relative gains this quarter, outperforming both global equities and bonds during the three-month period. During the quarter, the greatest contributions to absolute performance came from the oil & gas sub-sector - including the top three ind...

Summary The US EIA Short Term Energy Outlook was published on January 10, 2023. I doubt Russian C+C output will fall as much as the EIA has forecast. The Canadian forecast looks much too high. A guest post by D Coyne The US EIA Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) ...

Summary Midstream MLPs, as measured by the Solactive MLP Infrastructure Index, decreased by 4.25% last month. MLP yields remained higher than Emerging Market Bonds, Fixed Rate Preferreds, and the broad market benchmark for Investment Grade Bonds and lower than High Yield Bonds. The ...

Summary Oil prices continue to struggle as recession fears have curtailed the market is recent months. For now, the demand and supply dynamics of the physical oil market remain neutral to bearish at best. This is most true of inventories, which continue to see significant builds and exc...

Summary The Labor Department announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined -0.1% MoM in December, which was in line with economists’ consensus estimate. Core CPI rose 0.3%, but that was also in line with the economists’ consensus estimates. There is no CPI evidenc...

Summary Stocks and bonds rallied as the Fed’s Whip Inflation Now project seems to be finally bearing some fruit. The slowdown in goods spending over the last year has been modest but entirely expected and offset by a rise in services spending. The Fed has spent the last year ...

Summary December was a mixed month for commodity index strategies overall. Natural gas was the strongest commodity for most index strategies. The precious metals sector was the strongest performing sector in December, rising over 5%. Natural Gas Contributes From Rebalance ...