Oil futures edged decrease Tuesday, pulling again from an almost one-month excessive, as merchants weighed manufacturing outages and fears of rising Middle East tensions.
Price strikes
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West Texas Intermediate crude for March supply
CL00,
-0.99% CL.1,
-1.56% CLH24,
-0.99%
fell 66 cents, or 0.9%, to $74.10 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. -
March Brent crude
BRN00,
-0.96% BRNH24,
-0.96% ,
the worldwide benchmark, was off 69 cents, or 0.9%, at $79.38 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe.
Market drivers
Both Brent and WTI ended Monday at their highest since Dec. 26, lifted by considerations not simply across the menace to produce from continued tensions within the Middle East. Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian Baltic ports, from which Russia exports oil, have additionally been a priority, stated Carsten Fritsch, commodity analyst at Commerzbank, in a word.
Meanwhile, oil manufacturing in North Dakota has been curtailed by freezing climate that will take weeks to totally undo, he famous, with manufacturing losses final week working as excessive as 700,000 barrels a day.
Meanwhile, news experiences stated Libya’s National Oil Co. has lifted drive majeure on the Sharara oil subject, the nation’s largest, after a two-week shutdown attributable to protests. The subject produces as much as 300,000 barrels a day.
Source web site: www.marketwatch.com
