Does the world need more US shale oil?

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An interesting post here from Fairfax:

A trip to Texas to visit the heart of the US shale oil region has motivated analysts at Morphic Asset Management to short Qantas, as a rising oil price unwinds the share prices gains enjoyed by the airline.

Over two days of US oil company presentations, what came through “loud and clear… is that oil needs to be sustainably above $US50 for a few months before they consider adding any [capital expenditure] back”, theanalysts write in a note.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.