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Many companies say they cannot drill profitably if oil prices fall under $65 a barrel.
From Reuters
As Trump reversed his larger “reciprocal” tariffs on most of the world in the face of recession fears, he nonetheless hiked his tariffs on China once again.
From The Boston Globe
The European Union will pause its first countermeasures against U.S. tariffs after President Donald Trump temporarily lowered the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries, European Com...
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OPEC+ has decided to accelerate the reversal of production cuts, adding 411,000 barrels per day to its combined supply in May, surprising the market and contributing to a further drop in oil prices amid tariff-fueled recession fears.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — fresh from cutting oil forecasts twice in a week — said Brent has the outside potential to fall below $40 a barrel under “extreme” outcomes as the trade war flares and supplies rise.
The global oil market has been rocked in recent sessions as the Trump administration’s escalation of the trade war
A Reuters survey on Monday showed OPEC oil output falling in March, driven primarily by drops in supply from Nigeria, Iran and Venezuela.
Iraq, like the Kazakhs and other laggards, has pledged extra supply curbs as compensation for over-producing. Yet respected monitors like the International Energy Agency in Paris believe Iraqi output remains far higher than the country professes, with output of 4.3 million barrels a day in February — roughly 300,000 per day above its OPEC ceiling.
Immediately after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his slew of tariffs last week, OPEC+ members, led by Russia and Saudi Arabia, announced a
These four key factors have driven the massive price drop over the last four trading days, said Ole R. Hvalbye, Commodities Analyst at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB).