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The ongoing Gaza crisis as well as fresh Houthi attacks are keeping barrel prices high. Monday saw a test of $78.11 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate crude, finding the opportunity to gain momentum as US markets were closed in observance of the federal holiday known as American President’s Day. …

WTI is aiming to recoup $88.50 as energy prices show some improvement. Last week, crude oil fell sharply as a result of widespread risk-off flows that caused investors to flock to the US Dollar. Crude oil prices fell to a three-week low as the US Dollar Index reached a ten-month …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said to ministers that Russia is at the moment adhering to its obligations on energy exports, noting that it is surprising that “we are doing this”. Regarding the US ban on Russian oil imports, Putin noted that inflation in the US is surging and the West …

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said on Thursday that the decision to hike interest rates means ending reinvestments and moving towards Quantitative Tightening (QT) as “a natural next step”.The timing and pace of QT will be fully transparent, Macklem added, saying that when we initiate quantitative tightening, we do …

OPEC+ met on Wednesday and will not to break from its plan to add 400,000 bpd to quotas each month, largely as expected, despite soaring oil prices amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Russia is estimated to have increased its crude oil production by 0.2 percent in February compared to January, but …

Officials said that the OPEC + bloc will likely adhere to modest oil production increases when it meets on Wednesday, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the largest members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, complying with the agreement with Russia, despite the expansion …

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies led by Russia, known as OPEC+, have been unwinding historic production cuts they instated in 2020 after the pandemic caused an unprecedented fall in global demand.Then, former US President Donald Trump intervened to encourage Riyadh and Moscow to end a …