Gold Silver Reports – China’s insatiable appetite for crude is at least one thing oil bulls can count on this year.
The world’s biggest commodity consumer may buy 8 percent more oil from overseas in 2016, taking average purchases to 7.2 million barrels a day, according to the median of seven respondents in a Bloomberg survey including FGE and Energy Aspects Ltd. The country’s inbound shipments in the first 11 months of last year increased 8.8 percent to 6.63 million barrels a day and touched a monthly record of 7.4 million in April, customs data show.