is crude traded last week above a price cap set by western nations. joining us from london is edward gardner. edward is the commodities economist at capital economics. so edward oil prices have been rising for 5 weeks consecutively. now what's driving that? so we're prizes in prison from around and $75.00 to borrow the stocks. it's a month to about $84.00 to buy and today the reason for the the price increase is mostly supplied. so the supply coats the gradually taking place since august. the last year i have continued to constrain the markets, and we think that constrains supply from coupled with stronger demand from china, thanks to it's economic reopening and the end 0 coded and resilient demand in developed economies such as the us or contribution to market participants expecting a type of oral market in the coming months. so from all sides we focused at the global oil market will be in a deficit in the 2nd half of this year, slipping from a surface in that 1st off of the yes and um, in large part of that, it's due to strong demand in us on her arms at the moment, 20000000 barrels today,

now i am not one for conspiracy theories, but edward stanton did order a photographer by the name of alexander gardner to photograph john wilkess booth's remains and to my knowledge that photograph has never surfaced so a little food for thought. we are going to jump ahead in cleveland the stop is notable because cleveland had the foresight to construct an outdoor forum and all the other stops the funerals were held in capital buildings or some sort of whole where they had to go through this way and that and cleveland had the good idea let's have the funeral outside we can get more people to view him so theyy created this chine style pagoda and in the days leading up to the president's arrival in cleveland the newspapers even printed ladies, pleasese do not put hoops in yor skirt so they could fit more people in line. they were expecting 120,000 people to view the president during the stop in cleveland. unfortunately, heavy rain and something that seemed to plague the funeral train kind of put a damper on the crowd but 60,000 still braved the elements. we are going to jump ahead. i just want to point