After both Brent and WTI rose above their respective 50DMAs on Friday, capping 2017’s best weekly rally for oil, the rising tide is accelerating as the latest CFTC COT data confirmed, when net specs boosted bullish Nymex WTI crude oil bets by 27K net-long positions to 423K, the highest in two months, as producers continued to cover short hedges, sending their net position to the most bullish since the summer of 2015.
Meanwhile, oil started the Sunday session jumping out of the gate, with WTI rising above $50 for the first time since May in early Asian trading, following the usual non-material weekend chatter and “noise” out of OPEC (which to exactly nobody’s surprise “can’t stop pumping“), however what has attracted traders’ attention, is a WSJ report that following last week’s latest round of sanctions, and after today’s vote to overhaul Venezuela’s constitution further entrenching Maduro’s unpopular regime, US government officials are considering announcing sanctions against Venezuela’s oil industry as early as Monday, although as the WSJ notes, a full-blown “embargo against Venezuelan crude oil imports into the U. S. is off the table for now.”
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 30, 2017.
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