IEA says very high oil stocks present a threat to price stability

IEA out with their latest monthly bulletin 13 July 2016

  • despite oil market balancing underway
  • stocks close to topping out but are at such elevated levels that they remain a major dampener on prices
  • OECD commercial inventories built in May and June to a new record high, floating storage is at highest level since 2009
  • European oil demand has surprised on the upside but is unlikely to last due to Brexit uncertainty
  • IEA raises estimate of 2016 global oil demand growth by0.1m bpd from last month's report to 1.4m bpd
  • 2017 oil demand rising by a further 1.3m bpd due to India, China

Nothing to really glean from this but rightly cautious

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