Founder & CEO. Oil markets macro-analysis., Vanda Insights

Vandana Hari

Founder of Vanda Insights, a Singapore-based provider of analysis and briefings on the oil markets. Former Asia Editorial Director at S&P Global Platts, the topmost price reporting agency on global energy commodities markets. 25 years of experience reporting, researching and analysing energy markets. Focus on connecting the dots between supply-demand fundamentals, geopolitics, economics, financial markets and demographics to present the big-picture view on oil, with a focus on factors influencing prices. Experienced in oil price discovery in the physical and derivatives markets. Aim to provide insights and analysis in a clear and succinct manner. Available for bespoke research, analysis and market briefings on the markets.

Founder & CEO. Oil markets macro-analysis.

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Weekly Oil Views: Pandemic Punctuates Crude Rally, Expect More of the Same

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Weekly Oil Views: EU Vaccine Crisis, Saudi Cuts Wedge Crude into a Tight Range

Vanda Insights

Vanda Insights is a Singapore-based boutique provider of intelligence on the global energy markets, launched in September 2016. The venture was born out of a desire to extract the signal from the noise in the complex and often volatile oil markets. Our succinct and clear macro analysis is relied upon by thousands of readers globally, including those doing business directly or indirectly in the physical commodity and derivatives markets; wealth managers; governments, regulatory bodies and think-tanks; as well as trade organizations and educational institutions.

Global Energy Markets

Commodities

Crude is up 15% year-to-date. Though in a slow grind upward, prices have notched a spectacular 58% cumulative jump since the beginning of November.Last week brought five straight sessions of price gains, putting Brent within reach of the psychologically important $60/barrel mark.But it was neither the vaccines nor the OPEC/non-OPEC supply cutbacks that fuelled the latest surge (though those factors remained supportive). The main factor behind the latest swell in optimism was a rather unexpected finding in global Covid stats, which have more often than not marked grim milestones than promising ones since the start of the pandemic.How sustainable is the latest rally and what next for crude? We weigh in.

Crude is up 15% year-to-date. Though in a slow grind upward, prices have notched a spectacular 58% cumulative jump since the beginning of November.Last week brought five straight sessions of price gains, putting Brent within reach of the psychologically important $60/barrel mark.But it was neither the vaccines nor the OPEC/non-OPEC supply cutbacks that fuelled the latest surge (though those factors remained supportive). The main factor behind the latest swell in optimism was a rather unexpected finding in global Covid stats, which have more often than not marked grim milestones than promising ones since the start of the pandemic.How sustainable is the latest rally and what next for crude? We weigh in.

Weekly Oil Views: Prices in a Higher Orbit on Covid's Unexpected Retreat

Crude Oil

Weekly Oil Views: Prices in a Higher Orbit on Covid's Unexpected Retreat