Not exact matches
Although much of the recent drop in
oil prices has been due to the prospect of higher exports from Iran in the coming months (the International Energy Agency
forecasts an extra 300,000 barrels a day by the end of March), the dumping of stored
oil is essentially a short - term factor, and its influence on
crude prices should logically pass quite quickly.
Crude oil futures are at just over $ 44 / barrel, after the International Energy Agency
forecast prices would stay in the doldrums through 2020.
For instance, they expect Brent
crude to peak at $ 82.50 per barrel in July and copper to peak at $ 8,000 per ton in December, but they have
forecast lower
prices for both
oil and copper in 2019.
For the
forecast period, technical assumptions include A$ at US$ 0.89, TWI at 69, cash rate at 7.0 per cent, and WTI
crude oil price at US$ 86 per barrel and Tapis
crude oil price at US$ 90 per barrel.
S&P Platts said at the start of this week that analysts it polled had
forecast a 2.4 - million - barrel build in
crude oil stockpiles, with the agency warning this would pressure
prices, along with a surge in
oil imports.
Ben Luckock is in fact so bullish that he
forecast demand could exceed supply of
crude oil by 2 - 4 million bpd by the end of 2019 because of the US$ 1 - trillion in spending plans that never saw the light of day as a result of the 2014
price crash.
OPEC's surprise deal means that
oil watchers are going to have to go back to the drawing board and substantially revise up their
forecasts for
crude prices in 2017.
Joining a list of banks cutting their
price forecasts, Goldman on Friday reduced its 2015 U.S.
crude oil estimate to $ 48.10 a barrel, down from $ 52.
Crude oil prices fell more than 2 % on Friday after Goldman Sachs cut its crude forecasts, citing global oversupply and concerns over the Chinese economy, and after Saudi Arabia dismissed the idea of an oil producer su
Crude oil prices fell more than 2 % on Friday after Goldman Sachs cut its
crude forecasts, citing global oversupply and concerns over the Chinese economy, and after Saudi Arabia dismissed the idea of an oil producer su
crude forecasts, citing global oversupply and concerns over the Chinese economy, and after Saudi Arabia dismissed the idea of an
oil producer summit.
The World Bank, on the other hand, is more bullish and has
forecast crude oil prices of $ 55 per barrel in 2017 and $ 60 per barrel in 2018.
The strategists
forecast WTI
crude oil prices would remain at around $ 40 per barrel for most of the first half of the year, which would «slow supply growth, keep further capital investment in U.S. shale sidelined, and
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