stockpile
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China and Japan have significant strategic stockpiles of crude but will not be fully insulated especially as there is derivative upward pressure on gas, and even coal, substitutes.
From MarketWatch
Bessent also said that the U.S. was mulling the release of more oil from its strategic reserves and that Japan could do the same from its own stockpiles.
Rising aluminum stockpiles in China and softening demand there are tempering global price increases despite supply disruptions.
Meanwhile, as buyers scramble to secure supply, stockpiles in China continue to build, tempering price gains, ANZ adds.
Long-term, he says, Europe needs to think about how to better build energy stockpiles and reduce or reorganise energy consumption to attain more control over sudden supply changes, like we're seeing now.
From BBC
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