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WTI Crude Tumbles To $40 Handle, Fastest Plunge Since December 2014

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Having fallen for 7 of the last 8 days, WTI Crude just traded with a $40 handle for the first time since August 27th. Oil is now down over 14% in the last 8 days, the fastest collapse since December 2014...

 

This is the fastest 8 day drop since Dec 2014...

 

As we explained previously, here's why...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:50 | 6786322 Francis Marx
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Still see some green shoots even though a fire burned off the economic lawn quite a while ago.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:51 | 6786334 Haus-Targaryen
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We have a room full of shitheads at work that do nothing but oil projections.  They say expet $35.  

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:55 | 6786350 mijev
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Those analysts probably just sit around and watch porn all day and read zh every so often to get an update.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:00 | 6786375 J S Bach
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If you're an average commuter, cheap oil is pretty slick.  (groan)

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:04 | 6786398 Haus-Targaryen
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Not here in Rainbowland where there is a $3 tax per gallon of gas sold to fund solar panels & windmills.  Nothing says "social economy" like nailing the poor schmucks who have to drive for a living while handing out the proceeds to multi-billionaire friends of politicians all the while disguising it as "environmental protectionism." 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:44 | 6786531 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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Suck for you CA faggots. You guy seem to like taking things up the ass.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:47 | 6786547 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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Sucks for you CA faggots. You guys seem to like taking things up the ass.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:15 | 6790132 FredFlintstone
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I think he is from Germany

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:02 | 6786386 NoDebt
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"I just want to say one word to you, Benjamin.  Just one word.  Are you listening?....  Japan."

'The Graduate'

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:03 | 6786391 svayambhu108
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3 words: Big in Japan

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:56 | 6786359 buzzsaw99
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those same shitheads were probably telling everyone to buy at $100

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:58 | 6786366 Dr. Engali
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What were they saying when oil was $100? Let me guess..., oil is going to $125.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:00 | 6786377 Francis Marx
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Tell them if oil closes below $35 at the end of the year we will see $25 next year.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 13:08 | 6786870 troubledasset
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You don't need a room full of shitheads to know that countless overleveraged pure-play unconventional zombie companies are going to keep right on drilling because they will die faster if they don't. There, that sentence should land me mid six-figures in Manhatten, and I am just one shithead.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:52 | 6786323 buzzsaw99
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do you see what happens larry?

do you see what happens when you let bankers set the price of everything?

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:49 | 6786326 slaughterer
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It's dead, Jim.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:56 | 6786357 LawsofPhysics
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"since Lehman"...

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:07 | 6786412 Flounder
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No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:20 | 6786468 BandGap
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Dammit Bones! You're a healer, heal it!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:55 | 6786352 LawsofPhysics
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Once again.  Let me be clear.  "Official" prices on many things are going to be low.  Actually taking delivery will be another issue altogether...

 

Forward Soviet!!!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:37 | 6786516 Apply Force
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Yes - There will be LESS.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:53 | 6786562 Not My Real Name
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I think LoP is inferring broken supply chains. 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 22:11 | 6790116 sun tzu
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The actual price is even lower. North Dakota crude spot price is $33 today

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:56 | 6786355 Dr. Engali
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Now that's what I call price stabiliteeee...., good job fed.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:56 | 6786360 Flounder
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Your Iraqi and Gavelston tanker posts made for interesting reading.  UWTI going medieval.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:30 | 6786495 John Law Lives
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UWTI is a lousy investment product (imo):

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121714/look-uwti-leverage...

excerpt:

"If you’re going to initiate any position in UWTI, then it should be in and out on a dead cat bounce. But this is nearly impossible to time and extremely risky. There are much better trading and investing opportunities available at this time. Please do your own research prior to making any investment/trading decisions."

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 12:37 | 6786749 Hongcha
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UWTI does not deserve to be named in the same paragraph, let alone sentence, as "investment". UWTI is a roll of the dice and you wake up the next morning to see how it went.  Same same NUGT.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:56 | 6786574 RadioactiveRant
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DUG

 

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:57 | 6786361 aliki
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this should help (the shorts)

RUSSIA REITERATES IT HAS NO PLANS TO CUT OUTPUT

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 12:06 | 6786621 alphahammer
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HOW COULD RUSSIA CUT OUTPUT? THEY'D BE DEAD IN THE WATER WITHIN 36HRS...

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:01 | 6786385 _ConanTheLibert...
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$20/barrel coming next year

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:33 | 6786506 zappafan
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Eat a barrel of crashing crude, Janet!

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:45 | 6786533 roccman
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It mystifies me that a discussion of above ground events seems absent from this site related to oil shock.

 

One word

 

Abqaiq

 

Doesn't really matter - the peaking of oil is currently being defined by economic collapse. Oil shock was to occur in the end.

 

What we participate in is the grand two step.

 

There always must be a boogy man - can't go to war with something as esoteric as resource depletion.

 

$30 oil collapses the system slowly

$300 oil collapses the system overnight

 

We march to the cadence of the war drum.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 13:43 | 6786993 Mayer Amschel R...
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One word: glut

 

Only cheap credit & speculation lifted crude oil to dizzying heights, not demand nor resource depletion.  And, its the only thing left to keep it from <$10/bbl.  Get a new religion.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:52 | 6786560 firstdivision
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Can someone explain this to me?  Record high storage number and warmer than normal expected winter (which translates to less overall withdrawls) https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=NG&p=m5

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 12:04 | 6786608 Kirk2NCC1701
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Meanwhile, Goldman is giving us the Gold finger, on behalf of their BNF: China.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 12:20 | 6786690 Gohigher
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I remember "the crisis" in 1974. Same as it ever was.

Fri, 11/13/2015 - 14:19 | 6787137 Angry Plant
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Vlad gave the oil will be $80 by Christmas crowd who bought forward contracts on oil about a year ago a chance to exit those positions with minor losses.

The fools that didn't take it are now going to be wiped out by $25 oil as market finds its bottum just in time for Christmas.

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