http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN1431860020110214
Oil BULL factors
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"Recent (WTI/Brent) divergence was furthered overnight as an expected
renewed upswing in Cushing supplies is pushing the front WTI contango to
new wide territory ...
- while rising global equities,
- economic news out of China and
- underlying Middle East unrest are supporting April
Brent values," Jim Ritterbusch, president at Ritterbusch & Associates in
Galena, Illinois, wrote in a note.
* Iranian security forces deployed in the streets of Tehran to prevent
a planned opposition rally in solidarity with popular uprisings in Egypt
and Tunisia that toppled their presidents, witnesses said. [ID:nLDE71D13Z]
* Government backers armed with broken bottles, daggers and rocks
chased down thousands of pro-reform demonstrators in Yemen's capital,
turning unrest inspired by Egypt's uprising increasingly violent.
[ID:nLDE71D12D]
* China's crude oil imports in January rose 27 percent from a year-ago
to the fourth highest on record, as refiners raised production and beefed
up diesel inventories. [ID:nTOE64607F]
BEAR factors
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* U.S. heating demand this week is expected to be 24.2 percent below
normal, the National Weather Service forecast. Heating oil demand will
average 22.3 percent below normal, while heating demand for natural gas
will average 23.9 percent below normal, the NWS said. [ID:nSGE71D06C]