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TEHRAN, December 12 -Oil prices climbed by more than 1 percent on Wednesday amid a broad stock market rebound and on expectations that an OPEC-led output cut for 2019 would stabilize the supply-demand balance.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC)-Oil prices climbed by more than 1 percent on Wednesday amid a broad stock market rebound and on expectations that an OPEC-led output cut for 2019 would stabilize the supply-demand balance.
Disruptions to Libyan oil exports after local militia seized the country’s biggest oil field, El Sharara, were also buoying prices, traders said.
International Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 Were at $60.92 per barrel at 0454 GMT, up 72 cents, or 1.2 percent from their last close.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were at $52.29 per barrel, up 64 cents, or 1.2 percent.
The higher prices came amid an increase in Asian share markets after U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters that trade talks with China were taking place to defuse the trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies.
Despite Tuesday’s more confident market, analysts warned of an economic slowdown. [MKTS/GLOB]
“The global economy is set to cool in 2019-20, as rising interest rates and inflation begin to limit consumption in major developed economies, and market uncertainty weakens the fundamentals in emerging markets,” the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest outlook.
In oil market fundamentals, a decision by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and some non-OPEC producers including Russia last week to cut supply by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) has supported prices this week.
“OPEC production curbs will stabilize the market,” ANZ bank said on Wednesday.
Crude prices had lost a third of their value between early October and the announcement of the cuts. Some analysts warn, though, that the agreement may not have the effect hoped for.
Fereidun Fesharaki of energy consultancy FGE said in a note that the OPEC-led cuts would likely be “insufficient to mop up the inventories in the targeted three-month period till the end of the first quarter of 2019.”
Source: Reuters
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