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Crude Testing Critical Support…Will Stocks Follow?

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The near WTI futures price is down 21 percent since peaking on October 3rd as traders front ran the Iranian oil sanctions, which went in to place this week.   Fearing spiking oil prices, the U.S. granted waivers to eight of Iran’s largest buyers of crude – China, India, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, and Turkey.

KeyStone Cops Markets

Now fearing the world is amply supplied, traders are selling crude down and down.  The U.S. now produces more oil and than Saudi and Russia.

The United States has increased output to more than 11 million barrels a day, surpassing Saudi and Russian production. Saudi Arabia and Russia have also been increasing output to offset the drop in Iranian exports. – CNBC

Testing Key Levels

After bottoming at $42 on June 1, 2017, WTI’s 2-year uptrend has been violated and now testing critical Fibonacci retracement levels.   It has already sliced through the .382 at $63.48 and is now set to test the .500 at $59.39.  The next key level is the .618 at $55.29, which,  if broken, it significantly increases the risk of giving it all back.

Crude prices are a trending machine and usually need a significant fundamental change, such an OPEC cut,  to reverse the trend.   We urge caution.   Watch and wait mode, folks.

Crude Oil And The S&P

Not exactly a perfect correlation, but the chart illustrates both stocks and the oil price tend to move together.  Moreover,  such a large price divergence as seen over the past month is not sustained.   We suspect crude is sending a signal that stocks are going to, at best, struggle here or move lower.

Crude Prices And U.S. Jobs

We have written quite a bit about the U.S. labor market over the past year.

The only sector, which has experienced outsized employment growth since January 2017 has been in mining with job growth over 17 percent since President Trump took office.  The rise in the oil price has generated demand for roughneck hiring in the oil patch.

The following chart illustrates how mining support service hiring tracks the oil price but with a lag, from anywhere between 2-8 months.   If past is prologue,  the downturn in prices won’t begin to felt in the oil patch for another month or two.

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