From: Daniel Sabba | Sent: 1/9/2015 1:53:22 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Fw: EOD Commodities Note - 8 Jan [C] Attachments: image001.jpg; image002.png Importance: — High Classification: Confidential Vol in crude continues to collapse From: Prateek Jain Sent: 01/08/2015 09:15 PM GMT Subject: EOD Commodities Note - 8 Jan Oil A relatively quiet day in Crude today. We hovered around unchanged for most of the day before selling off in the afternoon and testing 50S BRE again. However, we failed to break it and rallied towards unchanged for the close, perhaps off the back of some index buying. Newswise, Feb Azeri BTC loadings will be up a whopping 11% m/o/m to 821kbd. Interestingly, there is apparently some floating storage interest happening as well, as some major phys trading firms have booked long term tankers for this as long term charter rates are cheaper and thus make the economics of storage look good. The window was again weak with ekofisk and brent offered down a bit. In other news, RTRS cites GCC “sources” saying that there is no chance of OPEC cut even though oil has dipped to 50S...Stateside, we learned yesterday that the Seaway Twin is moving 100% heavy crude. Furthermore, USGC diffs weakened again, with LLS now trading 1S above WTI. In the morning WTI spreads were quite bid, but that abated towards the end of the day. The arb did however stay bid throughout the day, as the fact that LLS/WTI is tight at 15 means that there is more room BRE to discount vs LLS so as to place those Jan and Feb overhang cargoes in the US. In politics land, the Senate committee voted 13-9 to have Keystone “bypass” presidential approval. So if the Senate passes this bill (which it should as it has 60 co sponsors), Obama may have to veto it. It is not clear that the Senate has 67 votes needed to overturn the veto, so this should be interesting to follow...In products land, distillate bounced back a bit after yesterday’s post stats ugly showing, perhaps of