Reuters | March 30, 2023
By Alex Lawler, Ahmad Ghaddar and Olesya Astakhova LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – OPEC+ is likely to stick to its existing deal to cut oil output at a meeting on Monday, five delegates from the producer group told Reuters, after oil prices recovered following a drop to 15-month lows. Oil has recovered towards $80 a barrel for […]
Reuters | March 22, 2023
By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rose about 2% to a one-week high on Wednesday as the dollar slid to a six-week low after the U.S. Federal Reserve delivered an expected small rate hike while hinting that it was on the verge of pausing future increases. Brent crude futures rose $1.37, or 1.8%, […]
Reuters | March 20, 2023
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rebounded and rose over 1% on Monday after diving to their lowest levels in 15 months as the market worried that risks in the global banking sector could spark a recession that would sap fuel demand. In volatile trade, Brent crude futures for May rose 82 cents, […]
Reuters | March 17, 2023
By Olzhas Auyezov and Mariya Gordeyeva ALMATY (Reuters) – Russian companies have flooded their Kazakh partners in recent weeks with new requests to help them circumvent Western sanctions and import badly needed goods, seven sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. After Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year, the West […]
Reuters | March 13, 2023
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices fell over 2% in volatile trading on Monday as the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank roiled equities markets and raised fears of a fresh financial crisis, but a recovery in Chinese demand provided support. Brent crude futures settled down $2.01, or 2.4%, to $80.77. The global benchmark […]
Reuters | February 14, 2023
LONDON (Reuters) -Investors turned more optimistic about the global economy in February, flocking to emerging market stocks and cutting their cash holdings to levels last seen since before the war in Ukraine, a BofA survey of global investors showed on Tuesday. The survey of 299 fund managers, with a combined $847 billion in assets under […]
Reuters | January 24, 2023
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Crude oil prices slipped on Tuesday on concerns about a global economic slowdown and as preliminary data indicated a bigger than expected build in U.S. oil inventories. Brent futures for March delivery fell $2.06, or 2.3%, to $86.13 a barrel. U.S. crude fell $1.49, or 1.8%, to $80.13 per […]
Reuters | December 19, 2022
By Tom Wilson, Angus Berwick and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance, is battling to shore up confidence after a surge in customer withdrawals and a steep drop in the value of its digital token. The exchange said it dealt with net outflows of around $6 billion over 72 hours […]
Reuters | December 9, 2022
By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Trade Organization ruled on Friday that U.S. tariffs imposed on steel and aluminium imports by then President Donald Trump contravened global trading rules in a judgment immediately criticized by Washington. In one of the most high-profile and potentially explosive cases to come to the WTO, […]
Reuters | December 6, 2022
By Shariq Khan NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. oil prices fell in frenzied trading on Tuesday to their lowest settlement levels this year, with Brent finishing below $80 per barrel for the second time in 2022, as investors fled the volatile market in an uncertain economy. Brent crude futures fell $3.33, or 4%, to settle at […]