OIL PRODUCTS: Oil Products End of Day Summary: Cracks Fall
Feb-28 19:27
Cracks reversed earlier gains as concern grows around the impact of increasing global trade friction amidst scheduled tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China next week.
- US gasoline crack down 0.4$/bbl at 23.66$/bbl
- US ULSD crack down 1$/bbl at 27.48$/bbl
- Exxon Mobil’s 270 kb/d Port Jerome refinery in northern France will halt certain units starting Saturday for a planned turnaround.
- Pertamina says that the Cilacap refinery fire has not affected operations, Bloomberg reports.
- Global HSFO cracks have been weakening in recent weeks but are expected to find support in coming weeks, Kpler said.
- China’s new 400k b/d Yulong refinery is snapping up cargoes from Africa to support its ramp up Bloomberg sources report.
- Feedstock imports by independent refineries into Shandong Province and adjacent regions is expected to have exceeded 8.50m mt in February, according to OilChem.
- Full-year air traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 10.0% on the year in January, according to IATA.
- Full-year North American traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), rose 3.4% January year-on-year, according to IATA, the slowest proportional growth of any region although rising from a higher base.
- European primary distillation offline capacity is set to peak at over 1.8m b/d in April, taking a further 100k b/d of capacity offline compared to current levels and hitting export demand, Kpler said.
- The Singapore gasoline crack is likely to remain constructive through March, Kpler forecasts.
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STIR: Modest Hawkish Tilt On FOMC Statement
Jan-29 19:15
- Fed Funds implied rates see a modest climb on the FOMC statement, to extend the day’s increase, mainly helped by the removal of the reference to inflation making progress line.
- Odds of a cut next meeting are further trimmed to 6.5bp vs 7.5bp prior and a next 25bp cut tilts a little more towards July over June (June to 24bp vs 26bp prior).
- There are 45bp of cuts priced for 2025 vs 47bp pre-release and 50bp this morning (which had aligned with the median dot last month).
FED: Statement: Surprise Hawkish Removal Of "Progress" In Inflation
Jan-29 19:12
See below for a comparison of the new FOMC Statement to the previous one released in December.
- The new Statement contains a hawkish-leaning surprise.
- While it was somewhat expected that the language on the labor market would change to reflect recent stabilization in conditions and the unemployment rate, we did not see many expectations that they would change the language characterizing inflation.
- They removed "has made progress toward the Committee's 2 percent objective", while retaining language saying that it "remains somewhat elevated".
- Arguably this is the most hawkish the language has been on inflation since "In recent months, there has been a lack of further progress toward the Committee's 2 percent inflation objective." (May 2024). In the meetings since then, they have noted "progress" on the inflation front, but not this time. The Statement introduced the "has made progress" toward 2% in November's statement, so that lasted for two meetings.
- This will be a key question for Powell at the presser.
US TSYS: Post-FOMC React: Yields Rebound With US$
Jan-29 19:08
- Treasuries gap lower after the FOMC left rate steady but removed reference to making progress towards inflation reaching goal. Guidance unchanged.
- Currently, the Mar'25 10Y contract trades -8 at 108-25 vs. 108-23.5 low, still well above initial technical support of 108-00/107-06 (Low Jan 16 / 13 and the bear trigger). 10Y yield climbs to 4.5790% high. Curves moving off flatter levels, 2s10s -.477 at 32.853 vs. 31.733 low.
- Cross asset update, BBG US$ index rebounds, currently +1.27 at 1302.46 from midday low of 1300.25; Gold weaker (2745.75 -17.74); Stocks near; prior lows (after Nvidia export curbs to Chima headlines) SPX Eminis at 6056.5 -40.0.
