Gasoline Metrics Are Flashing Red for a Tight, Costly US Summer
- Markets are rallying before one of year’s busiest demand weeks
- East Coast vulnerable to shortages amid already low stockpiles
A fuel nozzle in a vehicle at a gas station in San Francisco.
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From record prices to blowout spreads and falling stockpiles, a handful of financial and physical indicators are pointing to expensive and possibly tighter gasoline markets across the US this summer.
Gasoline futures trading in New York are extending a record rally on Monday, while US retail prices continue to set fresh peaks for the past week. Gasoline stockpiles are falling to their lowest level since 2015 for this time of year. Futures spreads show record profit in turning crude into gasoline and bullish backwardation not seen since September 2017, when Hurricane Harvey briefly halted making and moving fuels on the US Gulf Coast.