Black Gold- Like the man said, 'how many times do I have to hit your head with a 2x4 before you get it?'. All from popular media- Monday, Genscape the private inventory company said a build in Cushing, Tuesday the member only API said build in Cushing, today the DOE (EIA) said build in Cushing. So today a "surprise sell off".
This seems to be a pretty good version of the current media narrative complete with charts.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-0 ... -oil-lower
My summary is
1. PADD 1 reporting region flooded with gasoline and diesel because US refiners went flat out this spring, europeans are flooding the US market with their overproduction as Asian refiners, especially CHina export a new record level of production which is being called dumping.
2. Market blow up is just around the corner as we run out of storage for products in the US and in Asia. US refiners will stop summer blend early and shut down for extended maintenance just as China finishes filling SPR throwing yet another million barrels a day into the market causing world wide crude storage to fill at which time unhedged producers will be pricing at the margin (lifting and transport costs) to bring in the most marginal of buyers.
What they haven't said is that US Shale producers (undoubtedly with recent memory and helpful advice from their bankers) have sold over a third of their future production already so we shouldn't see massive levels of instant bankruptcy. Other narratives have pointed out that the S&P materials sector is holding up better than it should, so shorting an industry ETF could make sense, especially as CL gets those amazing spikes. Finally when things bottom Wall Street Journal says T.Rowe Price Natural Resources fund is run buy a guy who is very bearish on commodities so he has been investing in solid, low debt survivors.