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Market Brief: May 6, 2021

The Bears won the battle on Wednesday in the Fuels market despite significant declines in product inventories. Estimates called for a 4MM barrel decline in Crude. The actual decline was 8 MM barrels. Gasoline inventories were on the mark with a 700K barrel increase. Like Crude, Distillates had a larger than expected decline of 2.9MM barrels versus expectations of a 1.6MM barrel decline. The recent push by the Bulls coupled with inventory declines could invite additional production by OPEC+. So, while the Bulls won Wednesday’s headlines, the Bears won the trading day.

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