Category archives: Fuel Oil
FIS Technical – Brent August Daily
Oil Through The Looking Glass
*Crude Back in Trouble* Oil prices have continued their movements downwards as the markets digests the news of another US stocks build reported yesterday afternoon, as well as a resurgent virus in the United States. New infections are at new daily records in Florida, Texas and California. According to the EIA U.S. crude inventories rose …
Tanker News Update 25/6
Uncertainty on the high seas One would say that the forecast is looking patchy with low winds not moving many sails. The general outlook is a market softening, as a flotilla of vessels are coming off the back of crude floating storage that earned a healthy profit. This ultimately has led to an …
FIS Fuel Oil Morning Report 25/06/2020
Good morning all. Brent crude futures fell 31 cents, or 0.8%, to $40.00 per barrel after falling $2.32 on Wednesday. A day earlier, the benchmark contract hit its highest price since early March, just before pandemic lockdowns and a Saudi-Russian price war slammed markets. U.S. WTI crude futures fell 26 cents, or 0.7%, to $37.75 …
Capesize sets sight on $30,000 level
Capesize rates seemed to set its sight for the $30,000 level in view of high iron ore prices that lifted shipping demand for moving iron ores. The Capesize 5 time charter average hiked up further by $1,985 day-on-day to $28,657 on Wednesday, despite aggressive sell off at the Q3 contracts. Due to Capesize rally, the …
FIS CASTAWAY – EPISODE 13
This week the team talk $6 million dollar bail, Cape splits, and EU travel bans; all this is alongside our usual in depth analysis of the supply and demand factors affecting commodity market prices. Available now on the FIS website (www.freightinvestorservices.com/media ) Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7yMLsm5s8tLtrCQr7bG8wD?si=FW6Rvj9HRjClAx3vRjq8iw And Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/fis-castaway/id1507094242
Fuel Oil Daily Evening Report
Oil off highs on API build, awaiting EIA data
The oil market has continued to come off recent highs after the API predicted a build of 1.7 million bbls for last week. It did, however, also predict a draw in gasoline and distillate levels. But let’s keep an eye on for later this afternoon when the EIA will confirm the actual stats. …
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Oil Through the Looking Glass 24/6/20
*API FYI, but WBU EIA* The American Petroleum Institute (API) has predicted that crude stocks rose by 1.7 mil bbls last week. This isn’t exactly the greatest news on the demand front, something which is sorely needed by producers to help drive up prices after such historic lows in April. That being said, they have …