China Upends the Weak Oil-Demand Narrative
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AI-PoweredChina's oil import data shows a 5% year-over-year increase in November, contradicting forecasts of weakening oil demand growth, and the country's expansion of storage capacity suggests it will continue to buy more crude.
Market impact analysis based on bullish sentiment with 81% confidence.
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China’s latest oil import data has been rather bullish, with November imports rising 5% year on year. Not only that, but China is building new storage capacity, so it can keep buying more crude, instead of demonstrating that its oil demand growth is weakening, as forecasters say. China is making oil demand forecasting uncertain. FGE NexantECA, for instance, recently reported that China’s apparent demand in October had been revised downwards to 14.6 million barrels of crude daily, or 570,000 barrels daily less than earlier expected.…
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