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Goldman Sachs on Thursday raised its Brent crude oil price forecasts, projecting $86 a barrel for the second half of 2024, up from $85 previously, and $82 for 2025, up from $80.It said prices were likely to stay at the higher end of its forecast range, citing disappointing U.S. supply and a likely sticky geopolitical …
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Petroleum prices have fallen following Iran’s missile and drone assault on Israel, confounding expectations that the escalation of the shadow war would cause them to rise. Like major industrial accidents, extreme moves in oil prices, spikes or slumps, are always the product of multiple factors rather than a single cause. Spikes usually occur when the …
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The US president must hold Maduro to account while keeping a lid on domestic gas prices in an election year. Joe Biden must decide this week whether to reinstate oil sanctions on Venezuela — a matter entangled with two of the American president’s biggest headaches in an election year: inflation and immigration. The six-month waiver …
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Summary Prices fall for fourth straight session, down 4% on week OPEC spare capacity could offset Iran sanctions, analyst says EIA: U.S. crude inventories up 2.7 million barrels (Reuters) – Oil prices fell to a three-week low on Thursday, extending losses on hopes of easing tensions in the key producing region of the Middle East, …
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U.S. crude oil stockpiles rose and gasoline and distillate inventories fell more than forecast last week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories rose by 2.7 million barrels to 460 million barrels in the week ending April 12, the EIA said, nearly double analysts’ expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.4 million-barrel …
U.S. Crude Stockpiles Rise, Products Draw Down More Than Forecast – EIA Read More »
(Reuters) – Oil prices are up around 16% so far this year near $90 a barrel, with supply worries high given escalating Middle East tensions and tit-for-tat attacks on energy infrastructure between Ukraine and Russia. Investors are paying attention. After all, it was an energy price surge two years ago that helped drive inflation and …
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Summary Fed’s Powell: need higher interest rates for longer U.S. stocks seen up 1.4 million barrels – poll Market unwinding war premium, says analyst (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped for a third straight session on Wednesday as likely higher U.S. commercial inventories weighed, while weaker economic data from China and dimmed prospects of interest rate …
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Pipeline will almost triple shipments, bringing oilsands into direct competition with Iraq crude Bloomberg News Canada’s newest oil pipeline may spell trouble for a Middle Eastern country almost 7,000 miles away: Iraq. The Trans Mountain pipeline’s expansion, which will almost triple Alberta oilsands producers’ ability to ship their heavy crude to the Pacific Coast, will most directly affect …
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Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone strike on Israel is unlikely to prompt dramatic sanctions action on Iran’s oil exports from the Biden administration due to worries about boosting oil prices and angering top buyer China, said analysts. Shortly after Tehran launched its weekend attack – retaliation for Israel’s suspected April 1 strike on the Iranian …
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Possible BP bid highlights ‘London for sale’ scenario (Reuters) – The emergence of a possible bid for BP by the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned oil group has thrown a spotlight on the vulnerability of the Britain’s largest companies to takeover and the threat to London as a global capital markets hub. New York’s larger investor base and …
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