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Oil prices slump by over 3%

Olumide AdesinabyOlumide Adesina
2 years ago
in Commodities, Markets, Spotlight
Oil prices gain likely to halt over demand uncertainty as US-China tension intensifies
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Oil prices lost more than 3% at the second trading session of the week on concerns that new COVID-19 lockdown and slow vaccine rollouts in Europe will slow energy demand arbitrarily.

At the time of writing this report, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), crude futures plunged by over 3%  to trade below $60 a barrel. The April contract expired on Monday at $61.55, up 13 cents from Friday, after plunging more than 6% last week.

READ: World’s biggest oil company, Saudi Aramco pays a whopping $75 billion in dividend

The British-based oil contract, Brent crude futures also slumped by over 3% to $62.63, a barrel.

Oil traders are momentarily shorting oil futures on reports revealing Chancellor Merkel, leader of Europes biggest economy & other regional leaders agreed to put the country into hard lockdown over Easter to try to reverse a “third wave.

READ: Aiteo accuses Shell of theft of 16 million barrel of crude oil

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Good Morning from Germany where Chancellor Merkel & regional leaders agreed to put country into hard lockdown over Easter to try to reverse a “third wave.” All stores will be shuttered from April 1 for 5 days, except for food stores which will open on Apr3 https://t.co/UajRFLwtNO pic.twitter.com/M76L6QIHQB

— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March 23, 2021

Oil traders are currently undergoing a reality check on the account that oil energy demand still has a long way from a full demand recovery, and it’s the record levels of withdrawn production capacity that’s the main prop for the oil market.

So, having crested $70/ barrel on sentiments alone, prices were always vulnerable to a pull-back.

 

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