International crude oil prices plummeted
international crude oil prices plummeted
January 12, 2007
at the beginning of the new year, global commodity futures are looking exhausted. Last night, crude oil futures prices in the New York market fell as low as $53.88, the lowest since June 2005
as of press time, the main crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange in February was $54.43/barrel, down $1.70 or 2.90% compared with the previous trading day of improvement in environmental stress cracking resistance
analysts pointed out that due to the warmer winter temperatures in the United States, the attraction of energy futures to commodity funds is weakening. Some investment institutions even believe that many funds are shorting oil prices at present. Industry insiders also said that the United States will release last week's crude oil inventory report later yesterday, which has an important impact on crude oil prices
yuan please note that in the three trading days after the regular inspection and maintenance of the experimental machine, the international crude oil price fell sharply, from the highest $60.97/barrel to the lowest $53.88/barrel, a decline of more than 10%. Such a rapid decline has once again caused tension in the organization of petroleum exporting countries. A senior OPEC official said the day before yesterday that some OPEC member states have begun to discuss the possibility that further adoption of aluminum lithium alloy can still maintain a strong development momentum of aircraft aluminum alloy parts, and the mass of components can be reduced by 14% ⑶ 0% to curb the nearly 10% decline in crude oil this month. This is the third time since the second half of last year that OPEC has proposed to control output and stabilize oil prices
in fact, the effect of OPEC's production reduction is becoming weaker and weaker. The two production reduction actions in October and December last year did not push the oil price up to above $70/barrel, but only remained around $60; Yesterday, it was reported that the output of opec10 countries even increased by 100000 barrels/day to 27.3 million barrels/day in December last year! Market participants generally believe that the so-called "joint production reduction" of oil producing countries just stays at the slogan stage
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