Oil/LNG price rout deepens

David Llewellyn-Smith

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

The oil price rout continued overnight on news that Saudi Arabia is cutting prices, down to $76.50:

The LNG contract price is tumbling as well, by my calculations now at around $13.60 by January:

The paper market continues to suggest more pain ahead, the 12 month swap forecasting $12.70 or WTI $70:

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About the author

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.