Daily LNG price update (rig bounce)

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The Brent oil price settled virtually unchanged on Friday night at $58.59. Price support came from the general lift in markets on Greece and China, as well as further delays to the Iran deal but most else was bearish. From the FT:

In a bearish assessment of market conditions the International Energy Agency said the adjustment process would “extend well into 2016” as production — led by Opec nations — continued to swell and demand growth softened.

The Paris-based agency, which advises the world’s biggest economies on energy policy, said the oil market was “massively oversupplied”.

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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.