9 October 2024: 09:30 BST
Flat price was indecisive and choppy since yesterday’s selloff. It doesn’t know whether to go up or down, as forecasters and analysts debate, ever more noisily, the conflicting geopolitical and macro forces and their effect on prices. Banks and analysts preach about risk or bad macros sparking suspicions of words supporting trading books or even OPEC or government narratives. Just in case the question arises, we, The Officials, are data driven but we acknowledge market sentiment. At the moment, macros are awful and point down, and geopolitics are nasty and point up. Any price rise further harms the macros. Over time the two will converge and we suspect prices will come down.
In ‘The Officials’, Onyx Capital Advisory publishes outright values, spreads, cracks and boxes for the main energy commodities traded in the marketplace. The published values are determined independently and on a fair market basis by our team of dedicated professionals.
We invite you to read our reports, which will initially be published twice a day, reflecting closing values at 16:30 Singapore time (SGT) and at 16:30 London time (GMT/BST).
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