Why did u. S. Oil prices hit negative territory an unprecedented fall in American Crude Oil sales has added to the hardships caused by coronavirus so what will that mean for the u. S. And the Global Economy this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey thats one of the worlds most valued commodities but the coronavirus lockdowns to overturn the dominance of oil the worth of a barrel of u. S. Oil fell to less than nothing on monday thats the 1st time in history the price has turned negative so this means producers ended up paying buyers more than 30. 00 a barrel to get oil off their hands it rebound a slightly shit disturber 2 dollars the next day that jaw dropping slide this because the world has more crude that it could use and Storage Facilities and even ocean tankers are filling up oil is traded on future contracts and fears of not finding a place to put oil in may means nobody wants crude thats led to a severe drop for west texas intermediate a benchmark
The s p 500 are lower. Wti trading at 5. 31. We have a lot to discuss about the oil markets. The 40s and staying there. The dollar index inching ever higher. Sticking with the oil markets, we had that etf halted earlier today, as it was tapped out. Lets take a deeper dive in the oil market with taylor riggs. Taylor as you mentioned, a risk off tone across the board even as we look across asset. High yield of debt is down, so is copper. 10 year yields down to 56 basis points or so. The lowest yields going back to march. The dollar is stronger, treasuries are stronger. Dollar is ruling in this time of stress. Something else going on in the oil markets, on the uso etf, it was briefly halted for volatility trading. It is now reopened but we are still down. It does reflect the changes we have seen in the wti contract. It has been plummeting along with the price of oil. If you look at the chart im showing in my terminal, something wonky is going on in the etf market, given there is such a ru
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On this, and take the oil and find a place to ship it. That is proving to be a real conundrum for these markets here. There is a company, variety of companies that do this for a living including one called valpak. It has storage barrel systems i dont know what you call it all over the world, include places in singapore, rotterdam, theyre essentially saying there is no room at the inn. Weve run out of space for the space people are looking. Sort of a doubleedged sword here. The fears in the market they have not gone away. At love oil suppliers, their concerns have not gone away. A lot of wildcatters, smaller businesses if you take exxonmobils and chevrons out of this, to lesser extent occidentals host of others theyre still feeling the pinch. Not as much as you would think. Off lows early this morning but still down appreciably. So well be looking at the forward month contract where june is the most heavily traded at the moment. So we will keep an eye on that but we will also keep an ey
Kelly. The dow shedding 5 in lets get to bob for more on this sell off. Bob. I think the key here today is oils impact but its impacting things outside the oil market. Leets ta lets take a look at the sectors. The two biggest that are out there, tech and financials are the weakst ones. They will put pressure on the s p 500 because they are a big part of the overall market capitalization industrial is also weak. Energy is not among the big pressure points in the s p 500 today. I want to poipt out some of these big momentum names that have helped in the tech area in the last few days. Generally, weak today. Advance micro, starbucks these are momentum names that have done well recently and they are having problems today. The futures contract highly showed you that. Its remarkable to look at an 8 future track as 18. Thats an enormous spread were looking at here. Some of these Tanker Companies have having a tremendous day to the up side. Soc some of these Energy Futures just all over the pl