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An ugly home sales print (but record April home prices) combined with declining traffic and smaller spend data from Target threw some shade on the market early on but it was the FOMC Minutes that sparked the waterfall with their more hawkish comments. For any and all that say "yeah but they're stale, we had CPI and Retail Sales since", see the chart below ...
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WTI closes lower for a third consecutive session. Phillip Streible has more.