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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022
Oil falls as trade war raises recession fears

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Reuters
26 August, 2019, 09:05 am
Last modified: 26 August, 2019, 09:08 am

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Oil falls as trade war raises recession fears

Concerns about an economic slowdown are being fanned by a ratcheting up of trade tensions between the United States and China.

Reuters
26 August, 2019, 09:05 am
Last modified: 26 August, 2019, 09:08 am
Pumpjacks are seen during sunset at the Daqing oil field in Heilongjiang province, China August 22, 2019/ Reuters
Pumpjacks are seen during sunset at the Daqing oil field in Heilongjiang province, China August 22, 2019/ Reuters

Oil prices fell on Monday, pushing US crude to its lowest in more than two weeks, as an intensifying US-China trade war knocked confidence in the global economy.

Brent crude was down 63 cents, or 1.1%, at $58.71 a barrel by 0232 GMT, having earlier touched $58.24, the lowest since Aug. 15.

US oil was down 68 cents, or 1.3%, to $53.49 a barrel, having earlier fallen to $52.96, the lowest since Aug. 9.

Concerns about an economic slowdown are being fanned by a ratcheting up of trade tensions between the United States and China.

China's commerce ministry said late last week it would impose additional tariffs of 5% or 10% on a total of 5,078 products originating from the United States, including crude oil, agricultural products such as soybeans, and small aircraft.

In retaliation, President Donald Trump said he was ordering US companies to look at ways to close operations in China and make products in the United States.

"The only thing that will lift the storm clouds over oil markets this week will be if both China and the U.S. talk and decide to mutually take a step back," said Jeffrey Halley, market analyst at Oanda. "I can't see that happening."

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that the U.S. economy is in a "favourable place" and the Federal Reserve will "act as appropriate" to keep the current economic expansion on track."

The remarks gave few clues about whether the central bank will cut interest rates at its next meeting.

But exacerbating concern over the possibility of recession, US manufacturing industries registered their first month of contraction in almost a decade.

The Brent/WTI spread <WTCLc1-LCOc1> was at minus $5.24, after widening 60 cents to settle at minus $5.17 on Friday. The spread blew out after China included U.S. oil for the first time in its tariff moves.

Hedge funds and other money managers raised their bullish wagers on US crude to a three-month high in the latest week, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said.

US energy companies cut the most oil rigs in about four months last week, with the rig count falling to the lowest since January 2018, as producers cut spending on new drilling and completions.
 

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