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"Our commodity strategists estimate that most of the sell-off in oil prices is behind us as they look for WTI oil prices to rally to $54/bbl (+18%) by the end of the year and $69/bbl (+51%) by next June. Oil production continues to fall as global oil & gas investment has been cut by nearly $300bn (41%) and rig counts have dropped by 37% since the 2014 peak. In contrast, low oil prices continue to drive healthy demand growth, putting the oil market on pace to see its biggest supply-demand deficit since 2011. Our commodities team estimates that the deficit will last through 2020 unless we see oil sustain prices above $80/bbl. Given this outlook, we expect the energy sector to outperform the S&P 500 and move the sector to overweight from Marketweight. Historically, when oil has rallied over 25%, Energy has outperformed the market nearly 90% of the time, with average outperformance of 11ppt. The one time that the sector underperformed significantly amid a strong oil rally was when the stock market troughed in 2009, but the sector did recoup most of that underperformance in the subsequent year."