The Brent oil price too a solid 3% hit last night to $40.47 as I write because US inventories continue to climb at a breakneck pace. Henry Hub was hammered too to $1.79mmBtu:

It’s not a trend break for oil yet but is a warning that it is coming, in my view.
The major cause was the weekly DOE report which showed an huge 9.4m jump in US inventories, from John Kemp:
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