Morning Oil Report 21/8/20

Good morning all. Brent futures were up 17 cents, or 0.4%, at $45.07 per barrel at 5:05 am GMT, while WTI futures rose 13 cents, or 0.3%, to $42.95 per barrel.   US initial jobless claims for the week ended Aug. 15 was reported at 1.11 million, higher than analysts’ expectations of a 925,000 gain …

Iron Ore DCE January Daily Technical Review Aug 21st

Verdict – Short-term bearish. DCE iron ore extend the correction for the third trading day of the week. DCE iron ore Jan contract challenged 860 area for six times and all ended with failure. From hourly chart, iron ore broke neckline around 841.0 and start to deeper correction targeting 807.5. MACD widened below 0 axis. …

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Aug 21st

Ferrous Market –    MySteel 45 ports iron ore inventory at 112.42 million tonnes, down 813,300 tonnes w-o-w. Daily evacuation 3.27 million tonnes down 12,600 tonnes w-o-w. Australia iron ore on ports at 57.86 million tonnes down 967,800 tonnes w-o-w. Brazil iron ore on ports at 28.45 million tonnes up 693,000 tonnes w-o-w. 185 ships at …

Capesize rates slide on selling pressure amid Vale’s fixing spree

Capesize freight rates continued to slide despite a flurry of fixtures done by Brazilian miner over a short span of days. The Capesize 5 time charter average went down by $898 day-on-day to $18,570 on Thursday, despite bullish sentiment over the Brazil to China route. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) then dropped by 3.19 % …

Oil Through the Looking Glass 20/8/20

*Crude Stocks Fall While Imports Rise The EIA reported yesterday that crude inventories fell by 1.6 million barrels in the week to Aug. 14 to 512.5 million barrels, less than analysts’ expectations in a Reuters poll for a 2.7 million-barrel drop. This drop came despite a rise in net imports of 1.1 million bpd   …