Crude Oil Fundamental Analysis October 23, 2012 Forecast

Crude Oil Fundamental Analysis October 23, 2012 Forecast

Analysis and Recommendations:

Crude Oil is trading at 90.21 almost flat to Friday. Tensions continue to mount in the Middle East but lower demand and high inventories continue to limit prices. However, sharp downside in the prices was cushioned as a result of shut in the Keystone pipeline for three days by TransCanada Corporation which transfers 590,000 barrels of oil a day from Canada to midcontinent, the pipeline is expected to be back on line today. Crude oil prices are expected to trade with a negative bias anticipating reduction in the demand after observing slower growth in Chinese economy and weak data from the US and    Japan. Strength in the DX might also exert downside pressure on the crude oil prices.

 Trouble in the Middle East including Iran’s saber-rattling over international sanctions linked to its nuclear programme, Libya’s civil war and ongoing violence in Syria have caused volatility in oil prices this year. This month, the IEA forecast global oil demand will grow by half a million barrels a day less than previously estimated until 2016. The International Monetary Fund has slashed its global growth forecast for 2012 to 3.3 percent, down from its July estimate of 3.5 percent.

Tensions in the Middle East are ratcheting a bit higher following fresh violence in Lebanon. Hopes of a truce being implemented in war-torn Syria during this week’s Muslim Eid holidays are “slim,” the Arab League said on Monday, as heavy fighting rocked Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo.

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi had on Sunday indicated a favorable response to his appeal to both sides of the Syrian conflict to observe a truce during the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday, which begins on Friday. Brahimi has visited several countries with influence in the Syrian conflict over the past week, including Lebanon and Iran, warning that the violence could spread and set the entire oil-rich region ablaze. Such fears were compounded when a massive car bomb exploded on Friday in Beirut, killing three people including a senior police intelligence chief linked to the anti-Damascus camp in Lebanon, General Wissam al-Hassan.

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