We were seeing a bounce. A few trade and tariff exclusions will now apply on chinese goods. We are closer to reopening, and oil rallying. Some permian drillers are cutting output even as the Texas Railroad commissioner ryan sitton told us yesterday that quotas were down on arrival. We are seeing diamondback,s diamondback,seeing centennial, and others cutting output today. Guy that is feeding through into the china story, and also into what is happening here in europe. Oil and gas the best performing sector. Brent is up 11 . Higher the00 gapped first thing this morning. Eurodollar taking a knock earlier on, that big hit coming through from the German Constitutional Court calling into question the ecb qe program. That also had a fairly significant effect on btp yields. Currentlying higher in italy. The combination of the positive and the negative coming together here in europe today. Stocks higher, but we are seeing the currency coming under a little bit of pressure. Coming up, we are go
Court in germany. I really fascinating spiders web that has been woven. Here in the u. S. Come of the s p 500 up 1. 5 at 2886. A risk on tone in the market as you hear about tariff exclusions extended for up to 12 months on some chinese goods. Also oil rallying. It got up to 30 a barrel earlier. Yesterday, we spoke with one of the Texas Railroad commissioners. Wasaid that prorationing dead on arrival, but that permian producers could ration themselves. That is what we are seeing today. They have cut production today, and we are hearing that others will cut production in the next few months. We are also just getting a headline from that regulator meeting right now. Texas Oil Regulator asks producers for ways to reduce flaring. As we all know, following the story, flaring was one of the ways that Oil Producers got rid of the excess oil coming out of the ground, but it was not going anywhere. Of the regulators is asking producers for ways to reduce flaring. Crude is now trading at 23. 50
Money away for loan loss reserves. Alison Williams Joins me now. What were some of your takeaways. [no audio] actually, we are still working on her audio, so lets go to Annmarie Hordern first. Part of what we heard was from fatih birol of the iea talking about how bad demand would be, despite any production deal. Annmarie some seriously drastic headlines out of the iea. The other part is what they are talking about what this means for storage. It is testing the logistic capacity to the limit. On the demand side, they see april serious demand destruction, down 29 Million Barrels a day. For the year, what that means is 9. 3 Million Barrels a day, the worst we have ever seen on record in terms of demand. What the opec cuts probably did was maybe pull us back a little bit from the brink, but not doing that much. You can see that with what is talking about in storage. They say that could be exhausted by the middle of the year. All of this putting downward pressure on the future prices. Wti
Here are your top headlines. Blame game. President trump raised the prospect that china deliberately caused the coronavirus outbreak. This as the u. S. Pauses some tariffs for 90 days but not those on chinese steel or aluminum. Crude collapse. Wti sags to its lowest level in the 21stcentury on concerns that Storage Space is running low. The demand outlook remains gloomy. Signs of easing. Germany begins to reopen its economy as spain, france, and the u. K. Report the fewest coronavirus fatalities in weeks. Just under one hour away from the start of cash trading. Lets take a look at where futures are headed in europe. Futures are higher, whereas u. S. Futures are down. You can see the ftse 100 futures up more than 1 , as are the dax futures. S p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures, red arrows. Further away from the start of trade on wall street. It looks like we will kick off the week in europe higher. That divide between europe and u. S. Futures is interesting. We will watch that as we go th
Putting pressure on oil markets as well. And marie hoarder me for more. Walk us Annmarie Hordern joins me for more. Walk us through the veracity of the selloff, and does it last . Annmarie the next 24 hours is going to be quite bumpy for this may contract. Basically, it is Financial Derivatives meeting the physical oil market and what we are seeing on the storage side. If you are not out of this position financially and you are a futures trader, you have to accept the physical oil. The problem is, theres really nowhere else to put it. Look at cushing. That storage is quickly filling up, and that is the main hub in the United States, where you have pipelines to canada, the midlands, or the gulf. The may contract now trading at , which3, plus contango means if you look at the june contract, trading at about 23 a barrel, it is about a nine dollar differential, the most on record. If you look down the table of what you see for june, july, august, the prices are certainly higher on the futu