WTI Oil Technical Analyses: U.S. oil may break a resistance at $86.20 per barrel, and rise into a range of $87.30-$88.80. Image source: Thomson Reuters The bullish momentum is pretty strong, as illustrated by the consecutive gains over the past few days. The contract could be riding on a wave …
Oil headed for a seventh weekly gain, the longest run since December, as a global energy crunch roiled markets from Europe to Asia.
Russia balked at OPEC’s proposed steep production cuts to stabilize prices. A Russian high-level source told Reuters that Moscow would not back a call for extra reductions in oil output and would agree only to an extension of existing cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, a group known as OPEC+.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – U.S. May Become World’s Top Oil Exporter Next Year ; Citi Says — The U.S. looks likely to overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest oil exporter next year, according to Citigroup Inc. With American production surging to unprecedented levels as OPEC continues curbing output, the U.S. is on course to be the top exporter of crude and oil products in 2019, Citigroup said in an April 25 note.
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Crude Oil Pares Rally Amid Signals of Expanding American Crude Surplus — Futures closed 0.3 percent higher in New York on Thursday, wiping away most of the gains made during the session. Data provider Genscape Inc. was said to report inventories at the key pipeline hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, expanded, taking the wind out of a rally earlier driven by an unexpected Arab Light crude price increase by Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter.