Nice point on oil

In the blog capmarketline I read a good point on the oil development:

In short, the market has begun to return to balance, and because new supply comes on in size and not in drips and drabs, there may be a moderate build up in spare capacity over the next few years, even as demand grows. These developments have led to a groundswell of comments by industry observers about how low the price of oil could go over the next year or so. I'll have none of that. With demand now over 85 million bd worlwide, the industry needs a higher margin of excess capacity to provide

assurance to economic growth. Moreover, I could be on the low side with my cost estimates, as new supply will come on with

higher finding, development and lifting costs embedded. So, oil at $45 bl. is fine by me as a working assumption.

Source: Oil Market



With a price correction of ca. 40% (with a quite favourable background for global growth actually), the price of oil should have seen the worst. I have been sceptical during all that oil-bull-time because of very similar position as capmarketline. Now, seeing the market go that rapidly down - hey, some will call it a pure bear market! - its supposedly time to be more balanced: Oil is down, thats good news for all of us, who are bullish on stocks. The economy has shown, it can manage huge price increase without major problems; inflation pressures are to calm, production costs sink. World is better...