The Energy Report Thursday, August 6, 2009

By Phil Flynn
06 August 2009 @ 09:01 am EDT

Wet barrels dry barrels dry barrels what does it matter? Sometimes you need to focus on liquids and other times you have to focus on liquidity. Liquids things you can see or you can look to the obscure massive amounts of liquidity that continues to be pumped into the system to keep the economy afloat. For the second week in a row a bearish petroleum supply report is only bearish long enough to distract oil traders for the larger issues at hand. Those burning issues are weak dollar and the hope for global economic recovery. More talk that China may be stronger than it seems and the greenback that cannot seem to get a bid against a backdrop of a record budget deficit and a weaker than expected economic data. Oh sure weaker US data may be bad for energy demand but traders think that it could be worse for the dollar. It is hard to get excited about an ADP employment index that estimated a loss of 371,000 jobs in July and an ISM number that showed that U.S. non-manufacturing industries contracted for the 10th consecutive month in July falling from t o 46.4% in July from 47% in June. It might be bearish for energy demand but at the same time it sends a signal that the Fed will not take its foot off the liquidity accelerator anytime soon.

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