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Crude Time Spreads Recover from Earlier Losses

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Crude market is ticking back up after falling on concerns for rising covid cases in China ahead of the updated US inventory data later today.

  • Flat price futures are still down on the day, but the time spreads have recovered most of the losses seen earlier this morning.
  • The EIA weekly petroleum status report is expected to show a crude draw -0.94mbbls, gasoline draw of -0.32mbbls and a distillate draw of -2.18mbbls for the week ending 23rd December. Refinery utilization is expected to extend the recent decline on higher outages.
    • Brent MAR 23 down -1% at 83.14$/bbl
    • WTI FEB 23 down -1.2% at 78.04$/bbl
    • WTI-Brent up 0.05$/bbl at -4.28$/bbl
    • Brent MAR 23-APR 23 up 0.02$/bbl at 0.08$/bbl
    • Brent JUN 23-DEC 23 down -0.04$/bbl at 2.58$/bbl

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