Following last week’s epic crude inventory drawdown, the market expected a post-hurricane build of 4mm barrels, but API reported a mere 1.4mm build. However, a massive build in Distillates inventories (+5.3mm – biggest in 8 months) confused the machines. WTI had fallen back to a $44 handle – erasing all the inventory-draw-spike gains – before API data hit; but then spiked to last week’s API levels, tumbled, then spiked again…
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After last week’s (storm-driven) massive inventory draw, expectations were for a build, but the build disappointed. However Distillates saw the biggest build in 8 months…
Notably, WTI had fallen back and erased all of the post-inventory bounce. As Price Futures’ Phil Flynn noted, the market “is worried about a post-hurricane rebound in supply.”
But price action was chaotic with the big distillates build confusing algos…
Charts: Bloomberg
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