{"id":17934,"date":"2013-11-24T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T06:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/17934\/weekly-fundamentals-wti-brent-spread-widened-to-8-month-high\/"},"modified":"2013-11-24T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T06:29:04","slug":"weekly-fundamentals-wti-brent-spread-widened-to-8-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/17934\/weekly-fundamentals-wti-brent-spread-widened-to-8-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Fundamentals - WTI-Brent Spread Widened to 8-Month High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices gained last week but the WTI-Brent spread widened further to levels not seen since March. Relative strength in Brent was driven by concerns over Iraqi and Libyan output suspension, oversupply in the US, a return of refinery demand and arbitrage trading. Brent front-month time spreads, after demonstrating briefly contango earlier in the month, have been in backwardation which has been widened in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=6cz-YRMVIms:xqUpcl4uzgs:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/6cz-YRMVIms\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/6cz-YRMVIms\/\" title=\"Weekly Fundamentals - WTI-Brent Spread Widened to 8-Month High\">Weekly Fundamentals - WTI-Brent Spread Widened to 8-Month High<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices gained last week but the WTI-Brent spread widened further to levels not seen since March. Relative strength in Brent was driven by concerns over Iraqi and Libyan output suspension, oversupply in the US, a return of refinery demand and arbitrage trading. Brent front-month time spreads, after demonstrating briefly contango earlier in the month, have been in backwardation which has been widened in recent weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}