Oil: Technical indicators favor additional declines - BBH
|The analysis team at BBH suggests that after the 7.4% decline in crude oil futures in the past week, technical indicators favor additional declines in the days ahead.
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“The June crude oil futures dropped fell each day last week for a 7.4% decline. It appeared trigger stop losses selling as it fell through the the 61.8% retracement objective of the rally from the end of March low near $47.65 to April 12 high near $54.15 that was found near the $50 level. Sentiment is poor as OPEC output cuts have not reduced the record inventories, and US simply shifted some of the surplus oil into gasoline. The next target is $48, where the trend line of the low before the output cut agreement and last month's low can be found. Those March lows are found near $47.50.”
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