The oil canary is dead in the cage

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Last night the EIA cut its oil demand outlook:

The US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday cut its outlook for 2019 oil prices by $3.50/b for WTI and $2.95/b for Brent in response to rising uncertainty about global oil demand growth.

Register Now EIA now expects Brent to average $66.69/b in 2019, down from $69.64/b in last month’s outlook. It held its 2020 Brent outlook steady at $67/b.
EIA sees WTI averaging $59.29/b in 2019, down from $62.79/b in last month’s outlook, and $63/b in 2020, unchanged.

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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.