Crude Oil Fundamental Analysis September 20, 2012, Forecast

Posted September 19, 2012 15:48 (GMT) | By FX Empire Analyst - Barry Norman | Print | Font Size
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Analysis and Recommendations:

Crude Oil continues to decline, even with additional stimulus offered by the Bank of Japan today. In earlier trading crude oil rose after the announcement only to decline again. Falling global production and manufacturing continues to plague the economies around the world, reducing the demand for oil and other energy products. Crude is trading at 93.94 down 1.68 and continuing to fall.

Tensions in the Middle East have returned to their norm easing prices.

But pressure from the Obama Administration and threats of release of strategic reserves continue to force prices downward.

Today’s EIA inventory showed an unexpected increase in stocks:

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 8.5 million barrels from the previous week. At 367.6 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are above the upper limit of the average range for this time of year

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Economic Data September 19, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Currency

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Sep. 19

JPY

Interest Rate Decision

0.10%

0.10%

USD

Building Permits

0.803M

0.796M

0.811M

USD

Housing Starts

0.750M

0.765M

0.733M

WEEKLY

This Week in Petroleum
Release Schedule: Wednesday @ 1:00 p.m. EST (schedule)
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update
Release Schedule: Monday between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. EST (schedule)
Weekly Petroleum Status Report
Release Schedule: The wpsrsummary.pdf, overview.pdf, and Tables 1-14 in CSV and XLS formats, are released to the Web site after 10:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday. All other PDF and HTML files are released to the Web site after 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday. Appendix D is produced during the winter heating season, which extends from October through March of each year. For some weeks which include holidays, releases are delayed by one day. (schedule)

Upcoming Economic Events that affect the CHF, EUR, GBP and USD

Date	Time	Currency	Event	Forecast	Previous
Sep. 20	07:58	EUR	French Manufacturing PMI	46.4	46.0
	08:28	EUR	German Manufacturing PMI	45.3	44.7
	09:30	GBP	Retail Sales (MoM)	-0.4%	0.3%
	09:30	GBP	Retail Sales (YoY)	2.7%	2.8%
	11:00	GBP	CBI Industrial Trends Orders	-15	-21

Government Bond Auction

Date Time Country

Sep 20 08:30 Spain

Sep 20 08:50 France

Sep 20 09:30 UK

Sep 20 09:50 France

Sep 20 15:00 US

Sep 20 17:00 US

Sep 21 15:30 Italy

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