Massive Oil Stockpile Release; Iran Market Volatility

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Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here
are the stories we're following today. Breaking across the Bloomberg
this morning, the International Energy Agency is proposing a release
of emergency oil reserves that would be the largest ever
in its history. Sources tell Bloomberg that the IEA has
proposed a release in the range of about three hundred
million to four hundred million barrels as governments seek to
contain a spike and energy prices driven by the Middle
East War. Begin More from Bloomberg Middle East Breaking News
editor Patrick Sykes.
That would be a huge amount of supplied potentially to
enter the market at a time when, of course, lots
and lots of ships are stuck on the wrong side
of the straight up ball moves in the Persian Gulf,
and some of those producers in the Middle East have
had to shut in production or put it back at
least as a result of the crisis.
Bloomberg's Patrick Saike says the near total closure at the
Strait of Horror Moose have led to cuts from Persian
golf producers that have so far shaved about six percent
of global oil output, and.
As the war enters its twelfth day careen, the White
House has been sending mixed messages. First, Energy Secretary Chris
Wright posted and deleted a message that the US Navy
had escorted a tanker through the Strait. White House Press
Secretary Caroline Levitt says the military is still working on
options to keep Hormose open.
The US military is jarring up additional options following the
President's directive to continue keeping the straight up from Moose open.
White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt, then President Trump posted there
were no reports of Iran laying mines in the Strait,
only to announce later that the US had destroyed ten
inactive mine laying boats. All this as a tax continue
for a twelve a day and we get the very
latest from Bloomberg's owner Aunt in Dubai.
Yesterday marked the most intense date of strikes on Iran
by the US equity American officials, and overnight into Wednesday,
we have seen countries in the Persian Gulf intercepting various
drawn and missile launches from Iran, some of them headed
for again other energy assets, including the Sheba oilfield in
Saudi Arabia as well as the Eastern Region in Saudi
Arabia again, which is home to some of the some
of the largest oil producing assets in.
The Kingdom, and Bloomberg's on Iran says the UK Navy
reported three ships hit by suspected projectiles in the Straight
Up Our Moves and the Persian Golf this morning. One
of them was a cargo ship that had a fire
on board. And one of the two members of the
Iranian women's soccer team who was granted asylum by Australia
last night has decided to to draw her claim and
return to Iran. Several members of the team were branded
traders after they failed to sing their national anthem before
a Women's Asian Cup match last week.
Well Karen analysts are weighing in on whether this will
be a short or long conflict. Richard is President Emeritis
at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The problem with the US position is it only took
one to start the war US, but it's going to
take three to end it. And that's mean first of all,
the United States is going to have to, shall we say,
lean on Israel to be blunt to bring the war
to an end. Sooner than the Prime Minister wants. Even
more difficult is the United States, so is going to
have to persuade Iran to bring a war to this
war to an end, and that I think is going
to be the biggest challenge for this president who increasingly
wants to wrap this up to Claire victory, declare mission accomplished.
But again he doesn't have the power to do that.
He's got to bring a run.
Around Council on Foreign Relations. President Emeredis Richard Haas spoke
to Bloomberg's Romain Bostic and Katie Grindfeld. You can watch
their full interview on our new video Experience on the
Bloomberg Business app.
Well, we turned to politics at Home now. Nathan in
one of the most conservative congressional districts in the US.
A special election in Georgia to replace former Representative Marjorie
Taylor Green has an unusual runoff, a Democrat facing a
Republican endorsed by President Trump. The Democrat, Sean Harris, is
a retired Army general and cattle farmer. He leads Republican
district attorney Clay Fuller thirty seven point three to thirty
four point nine percent, with ninety nine percent of the
vote counted. Both candidates will face off again after neither
of them won the majority in a seventeen candidate field.
Harris spoke with the Bloomberg's Balance of Power before the
votes were counted and said he has what it takes
to win.
My name is the name that people know and trust
here in the district, and that's why we're actually going
to win this thing tonight. And if we don't win
in tonight, we're going to win the runoff because I'm
getting Democrats independence and yes, Republicans are voting for me.
And Georgia Democrat John Harris will face Clay Fuller and
in April seventh runoff to fill the remainder of Marjorie
Taylor Green's term this year then Karen.
It was also a primary election day in Mississippi and
incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde Smith will face Democratic challenger
Scott Collum in the after they easily won their races.
Hyde Smith was endorsed by President Trump, and with ninety
three percent of votes counted, she defeated Sarah Adlodka eighty
point eight to nineteen point two percent. Column received seventy
three percent of the Democratic votes, and House incumbents, including
longtime Democratic Congressman Benny Thompson, also easily won their Mississippi
primary races.
And we are hearing now that the International Energy Agency
is proposing a release of reserves oil stockpire release of
about three hundred to four hundred million barrels. Still, NIMEGX
screwde oil remains higher this morning a four point eight
percent of four dollars three cents at eighty seven dollars
forty eight cents a barrel. Brent is up four and
a quarter percent. It's at ninety one dollars forty one cents, and.
Karen futures are lower this morning. Ahead of a key
reading on inflation before the opening bill, we get the
consumer Price Index for the month of February. It's projected
to show core inflation stripping out volatile energy and food
prices rose two tenths percent last month.
And right now, taking a look at Oracle and Company news,
shares are up ten percent in early trading. Revenue top
analyst estimates, and the software maker gave an outlook that
suggested there is little letup and demand for AI computing.
Aniragrana covers Oracle for Bloomberg Intelligence.
It's actually very clean numbers. I think the things that
sticks out most as capital expenditure is not going to
go up. I think people are worried about a lot
of these cloud providers adding to capex, so that's a
good thing, which revenue slightly higher, capex remaining flat, the
backlog is growing, So I think this is a good
print from multiple facets.
And Bloomberg Intelligence is anaag Rana notes that before the report,
Oracles stock had lost more than fifty percent of its
value from mid September peak as Wall Street grew worried
about its high AI costs.
Wall Street's biggest bank, JP Morgan Chase Karen is restricting
its lending to private credit funds after marking down the
value of certain assets in their portfolios. Sources say the
devalued loan are two software companies. That is a sector
that has been in the spotlight in recent weeks due
to investor concern over the potential impact from artificial intelligence.
This news is the latest sign of stress in a
once booming segment of the credit market.
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Good morning on Nathan Hager. As the war where Iran
enters its twelfth day, major moves maybe on the way
now to calm an energy market that has been whipsawed
by the fast moving conflict. Bloomberg News has learned that
the International Energy Agency is now proposing the largest ever
release of emergency oil reserves. For the latest, We're joined
from Istan Bull by Bloomberg News Middle East Breaking News
editor Patrick Sykes and Patrick. Before we got this latest word,
we had already heard that this could be the biggest
release since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. What's the latest we're
hearing now.
Yeah, Indeed, that would be a huge amount of supplied
potentially to enter the market at a time when, of course,
lots and lots of ships are stuck on the wrong
side of the straight up ball moves in the Persian Gulf,
and some of those producers in the Middle East have
had to shut in production or put it back at
least as a result of the crisis. I think we'll
be watching potentially later to today, later today for a
final decision on those reserves. But potentially yes, some release
to the market in the form of supply.
Three hundred to four hundred million barrels a day is
what sources are telling us. Will that be enough to
calm the market is we are watching Nimex and Crew
both spiking still this morning.
I think the market will quite quickly. I mean, I'm
sure it'll provide some limited relief, but I think longer
term the market will get quite quickly. Back to question
of duration in the straight or forms. This is an
emergency measure. It will provide some relief at the front end,
but for longer term calming of the market, any return
to the kind of price levels we saw before the
start of the war, I think you need a resolution
to the conflict and particularly to the security situation in holmost.
What does the security situation look like right now? We've
heard reports of some ships being hit potentially or targeted.
Yeah. By my account, today has been one of the
worst for attacks on shipping in the region. We've had
three separate incidents reported by the UK Navy agency that
looks at these. I think a cargo bulk carrier. So
it just under lines note I think hours after Trump
and his administration we're talking about targeting Iranian mining capabilities
to secure the straight, Iran appears to have responded with
an uptick in attacks.
It raises a question about whether the US is ready
to fulfill President Trump's promise to escort ships through the
Strait of Horror moves. What's the situation there.
Yeah, there was some confusion yesterday. One US official had
said that that had begun, one ship had passed, and
that was later denied by the White House and the
posting question was deleted. I think if and when it
comes yes, perhaps similar to these reserves, right, it'll provide
some relief in that traffic will be able to start
moving again. On the other hand, those convoys are going
to be themselves a target and the rate of transit
is still going to be very very low with the
kind of hardware you would need to commit to get
them through, So you're looking at potentially resumption, but at
a much lower volume. Still.
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