Something Dark Emerges from the Tar Pits and Oil Sands, Destroying Crude Oil Price Rally
By David Haggith
TheGreatRecession.info
July 26, 2016
The crude oil price rally has been completely crushed, though I’ll admit I was wrong when I predicted crude oil prices would plummet in March or April as the perfect storm developed against oil prices. Instead, they rallied. In spite of that, I continued to believe my error was in timing and not in fact — not in the fact that a another harsh fall in oil prices was beating a path to our doors.
Crude oil prices beaten down by a storm still building
So, I continued to write articles about the forces building against oil prices, even in the face of a strong rally — a rally that many believed would set a new floor for oil for the remainder of 2016. That storm has, as of today, completely clawed back the post-March rally by taking crude oil prices back to a three month low and to where they stood at the start of the year as well. West Texas Intermediate just struck $42/barrel today.
That said, oil still has not gone back into the dark valley from which it came in the winter of oil’s discontent, and to which I said it would return.
I still believe the full strength of this storm is yet to be felt. So, my oil price prediction is that we hit $30/barrel again, before next March, but probably even by this fall. I have to state a caveat to that prediction … and not because I want to hedge my bet. I don’t like hedging my bets, as I prefer to hit them straight on the nose for a clear victory.
As stated in an earlier article, we have no way of knowing anymore what the Fed with its cloaked operations, liberal hand, and infinite money potential is doing at any moment to manipulate the price of the oil market in the same way it has admitted to doing with the stock market. Anytime the Fed sees oil bringing a serious gale against its heavily encumbered member banks, you can now be sure it will intervene to save the banks (at any cost). The Fed is loathe to let markets be markets and has become so deeply involved in market manipulation that there is no longer any basis for assuming any market will run as a truly free market. (But, if my prediction is wrong, I don’t know how I’ll be able to show it was likely for that reason.)
Nevertheless, I think forces are moving in that will ultimately blow everything outside of the Fed’s control. When we arrive at that inexorable day when all the oil tanks of the world — and all the tankers on land and sea — are full (as I’ve said we are likely to do and as appears to be more the case all the time), it will be hard for the Fed to manipulate the price of oil with nowhere to store the oil it buys. Reality finds a way to leak in or seep out … eventually.
Crude oil price storm develops a new front as gasoline storage backs up
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