🛢️ OPEC+ Load the Buffet—IEA Warns ‘Oil Market Looks Bloated’

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) just rang the dinner bell—and it turns out the buffet is overflowing. Thanks to OPEC+ turning up production in July, global oil supply is climbing faster than anyone’s appetite for it.

Demand? Limp. Supply? Overflowing like a poorly planned Vegas buffet shrimp station. The IEA says inventories are stacking up as traders keep topping off plates no one’s eating from.

“Bloated” Is the Word of the Day

The IEA’s monthly report put it bluntly: with production rising and consumption forecasts flatlining, the oil market is starting to look like it’s had one too many helpings. Brent crude barely budged on the news, staying in the mid-$70s, because apparently traders have seen this buffet before and know the dessert cart comes next.

Meanwhile, non-OPEC production—led by the U.S. and Brazil—is piling on more dishes, as if they didn’t hear there’s already a line out the door.

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