China Is Buying More Crude But Still Far From Prewar Levels — Market Talk

Market talk reported that China's crude oil purchases have risen but remain well below levels seen before the war, according to Dow Jones. The transmission channel runs through physical demand and import volumes: a recovering Chinese appetite for crude tightens global supply-demand balances and supports benchmark prices, while the gap to prewar volumes signals that Chinese demand has not yet fully normalized. Chinese equities, the yuan, and regional refiners and crude-importing economies are most directly exposed, since sustained import recovery would affect their input costs and trade balances. Traders should watch China's next monthly customs data on crude imports and the subsequent refinery throughput figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, which will show whether the buying trend is translating into actual processing demand.

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