We believe taming inflation has become a principal target for the US Federal Reserve. The Administration has just released one third of its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (approximately 180 million barrels) to restrain oil prices and US strategic reserves now stand at their lowest level since 1984. The exact plan is to release 1 million barrels of oil per day over a period of the next six months.
KM Cube’s Investment Committee met to discuss its tactics into March and how the recent Russia invasion of the Ukraine affects global economy and our client’s portfolios. We stress how the lack of first-hand on-the-ground research of the specifics limits us to a journalistic analysis of this multilayer event that is the Russia/Ukraine stand-off.