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“It is getting complicated…every day there is a new issue coming up,” one OPEC delegate said this morning as it is clearly becoming harder to keep the smoke and mirrors jawboning of a possible cut/freeze alive in the face of a reality that is very clearly enunciated by Russia’s energy minister, “any output freeze could be offset by a quick recovery in US shale oil output.” In other words, why bother with a freeze at all.. which is exactly what Iran and Iraq just said…
The reaction is clear, disappointment.
Pushing WTI to near one-month lows.
And now that the machines have run $50 stops twice in 2 days, we suspect there is little ammo left to keep the dream alive.