{"id":2163,"date":"2017-06-20T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ctsfutures.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2017-06-20T06:06:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:06:31","slug":"morning-thoughts-2017-06-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udg.ehs.mybluehost.me\/morning-thoughts-2017-06-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Thoughts – June 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Energy<\/u><\/strong> –
\nCrude oil prices are trading at 7-month lows this morning following data showing the amount of oil stored in tankers reached a new high of 111.9 million barrels earlier this month.\u00a0 Note the chart below is showing the 4-week average, which hasn\u2019t yet made a new high.\u00a0 This clearly isn\u2019t what OPEC was wanting to see with their production cuts.<\/p>\n

\"Persistent<\/p>\n

You can see the issue developing in the spreads recently.\u00a0 The chart below shows the one-year calendar spread in WTI futures.\u00a0 After taking a few attempts at inverting, the futures spread has fallen in recent weeks as it is becoming clearer the OPEC supply cuts are not yet having their desired results.<\/p>\n

\"WTI<\/p>\n

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