This is a special edition of Macrovoises with hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.

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Now for this special edition of Macrovoises, here's hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.

Macrovoises Energy Week episode 15 was recorded on August 14, 2019.

I'm Eric Townsend.

We're going to be giving our editing and production staff a well-deserved holiday

for the last two weeks of August.

So this will be the last episode of Energy Week this month.

We'll be back to our regular schedule every Wednesday night starting September 4.

I'll be joined this week by author and consultant, Anas Alhaji,

professional crude oil trader, Tracy Schuchart, and hedge eye energy research head,

Joe McMonigal.

Our topics this week will include the Saudi Aramco IPO, supply demand outlook,

geopolitical update, and even an update on the spread topic which I introduced last week,

and which remains a mystery.

So far it's gone unsolved.

Perhaps one of our listeners will be able to explain it to us.

But first, let's dive right into the EIA data.

Crude oil building 1.6 million barrels.

Another build this week, unexpected by most analysts,

but pushing Oklahoma drawing down 2.5 million barrels.

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