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Crude Traded Volumes Dip With Tight Supplies Weighed With Demand Concern

OIL

Crude oil daily traded volumes have fallen in recent days after a spike on 9 August amid concerns for tight supplies from rising tension in the Black Sea last week.

  • Aggregate daily traded volumes for ICE Brent are down from 1.22m contracts to just 785k contracts yesterday and compared to around 970k average over the last month.
  • WTI aggregate traded volumes have also dipped from 1.29m to 669k in the same time period.
  • The oil market is balancing tighter supplies due to OPEC+ production cuts against ongoing US and China economic uncertainties with China driving the weaker futures today after soft economic data last night.
  • Second month Brent volatility is edging slightly higher this week to 27.6% with WTI at 28.9%.
    • Brent OCT 23 down -1.5% at 84.91$/bbl
    • WTI SEP 23 down -1.8% at 81.06$/bbl


Source: MNI / Bloomberg

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