In a weekend that was rife with airstrikes, the Israeli Air Force launched attacks against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon just before this group launched a missile attack on Israel. After these attacks, both sides reportedly indicated that they did not want a full-blown war. Following the strikes, Brent crude oil increased by 0.85% and the…
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Mazrouei continued: Are we going to have a second wave or not? I hope not. I hope we’re not going to limit travel and we will go back to at least a consumption level that is reasonable. Now we are back to the consumption level of 2013, believe it or not. Mazrouei did not define…
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Head of Synergy Markets, Christian Dove commented: I know many retail customers out there are desperate to benefit from what they see as huge opportunity to trade crude oil at these low prices. However, I advise – if you intend to trade oil, then please do so with great caution. I think we could easily…
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eToro UK markets analyst, Adam Vettese, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for August 19, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, This week may well be as volatile as last week. Attention will be focused on the Federal Reserve’s FOMC minutes…
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Suppliers, refiners and end users of U.S. crude oil will have a new way to price and hedge WTI light sweet crude oil in Houston beginning in Q4 2018. Derivatives marketplace CME Group will offer a new WTI Houston Crude Oil futures contract with three physical delivery locations on the Enterprise Houston system, pending regulatory…
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Oil prices recovered ground on Monday following last week's big losses, driven by expectations that OPEC will extend a pledge to cut output to cover all of 2017, although a relentless rise in U.S. drilling capped gains, Reuters reported earlier today. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures CLc1 added 26 cents, or 0.5%,…
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Oil prices bounced off from losses chalked up the session before, but the market remained under pressure as bloated U.S. crude inventories and rising output dampen OPEC-led efforts to curb global production, as Reuters reported earlier today. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil, were at $50.99 per barrel at 0621 GMT, up 0.7% from…
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Oil prices started to accelerate more than 1% today after the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced record initial compliance by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members implementing last year's landmark deal to curb output in an effort to prop up global oil prices. Members of OPEC made production cuts in January equating to…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order of Permanent Injunction (Order) against Defendants Igor B. Oystacher and his proprietary trading company, 3Red Trading LLC (3Red), both of Chicago, Illinois, finding that the Defendants engaged in a…
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Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting began on Wednesday in Vienna. Oil producers will try to agree on a production cut to bolster prices which have plunged by more than half since 2014, with Iran and Iraq resisting pressure from Saudi Arabia to participate fully in any action, as reported by Reuters. On…
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