Products tight, crude so-so

6 November 2025 Time to read:  minutes

Commentary Summary:

– It remains hard to short products with very limited evidence that current refining tightness can be sustainably alleviated.

– Tuapse attacks are a reminder that this is only the beginning of Ukraine’s successful aerial campaign.

– US product draws are rather strong, while US crude builds are anaemic with exports able to alleviate any natural pressure for now.

By now it is not too wild a statement to suggest we ‘need’ a big global recession to alleviate product tightness, with limited global spare capacity again causing huge cracks across various products.

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