Oil - Supply and Price
Watch out for runaway inflation soon if this is true. Especially in the commodities markets.
capacity my a**....
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Watch out for runaway inflation soon if this is true. Especially in the commodities markets.
Oil Soars to Record on Spike Alert
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Business - Reuters
By Richard Valdmanis
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices surged to a record near $58 a barrel on Friday, powered by a forecast the market could spike above $100 due to robust global demand and tight spare capacity.
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Prices have climbed around 30 percent this year, with big-money speculative funds buying heavily on signs that rapid demand growth in Asia's emerging economies and the United States would strain world supply.
U.S. light crude settled up $1.87 to $57.27 after peaking at $57.70 a barrel, breaking the previous record of $57.60 hit March 17. London's Brent crude climbed $2.22 to $56.51 a barrel.
U.S. gasoline futures for May hit a record $1.7360 a gallon on worries that a national stockpile surplus could dwindle ahead of driving season, while heating oil futures struck a peak of $1.6750 a gallon.
Top energy derivatives trader Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - news) said in a report on Thursday the oil markets might have entered a "super-spike" period, which could eventually drive prices toward $105.
"That was a pretty big call by them and the market is just assessing where supply and demand really sits," said David de Garis, senior economist at ANZ Investment Bank in Melbourne.
"In a very interesting report, Goldman talked about how we might see a longer cycle and a higher cycle than we have seen in a very long time," said Deborah White, senior economist at SG Commodities.
Goldman Sachs raised its 2005 and 2006 price forecasts for U.S. light crude to $50 and $55, respectively, from $41 and $40, citing resilient oil demand growth.
Prices rallied 2.6 percent on Thursday on the back of the report and also on concerns about the adequacy of U.S. gasoline stocks ahead of the peak summer demand season.
GASOLINE SUPPLY ANXIETY
Production problems over the past week have deepened concerns over whether refiners will be able to meet gasoline demand this summer.
A 485,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Venezuela -- the world's fifth-biggest oil exporter and a top supplier of crude and oil products to the United States -- was shut down on Thursday by a power failure.
State oil company PDVSA said it aimed to resume full operations at the Amuay refinery in seven days at the latest and that supply to local and international markets was guaranteed.
A fatal explosion last week at BP Plc's (BP.L) Texas City refinery, the third-largest in the U.S., also unnerved the market, along with problems at several gasoline-producing units.
For the past month, U.S. gasoline demand has been 2 percent higher than the same time a year ago, despite record pump prices.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on Wednesday gasoline stocks fell 2.9 million barrels to 214.4 million barrels last week, the fourth decline in a row.
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