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Oil settles higher but posts fourth straight quarterly decline

June 30, 2023By Reuters
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June 30 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled higher on Friday but posted their fourth straight quarterly loss as investors worried that sluggish global economic activity could crimp fuel demand.

Benchmark Brent crude futures for August delivery which expires on Friday, settled up 56 cents, or 0.8%, at USD 74.90. In the three months to the end of June, the contract finished down 6%.

US West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) settled up 78 cents, or 1.1% at USD 70.64 a barrel. It posted its second straight quarterly drop, down about 6.5% in the latest three months.

Prices have been under pressure from rising interest rates in key economies and a slower-than-expected recovery in Chinese manufacturing and consumption.

Signs of strengthening US economic activity and sharp declines in US oil inventories last week offered some support.

For the day, crude was bolstered by a US Commerce Department report showing annual inflation rising last month at its slowest pace in two years.

Signs of moderating inflation “could hold the Federal Reserve off rising interest rates again,” said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC in New York.

The market was also supported by upward revisions in demand for crude oil and refined products in the United States.

Demand for crude and petroleum products fell slightly to 20.446 million bpd in April but remained seasonally strong, EIA data showed.

Prices also drew support from Saudi Arabia’s plans to cut output by a further 1 million barrels per day in July in addition to a broader OPEC+ deal to limit supply into 2024.

“Despite the announcements of two fresh rounds of cuts from OPEC+/Saudi Arabia, crude prices have largely remained below USD 80 a barrel as the market has been driven less by fundamentals and more by macroeconomic concerns,” HSBC analysts said in a note.

“We think this will continue to be the case for part of the summer, although the deep deficit of around 2.3 million barrels forecast for 2H23 should help to spur some upwards price momentum.”

A Reuters survey of 37 economists and analysts showed oil prices will struggle for traction this year as global economic headwinds linger.

US energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a ninth week in a row for the first time since July 2020, energy services firm Baker Hughes said on Friday.

(Additional reporting by Ron Bousso in London, Arathy Somasekhar in Houston, and Muyu Xu in Singapore; editing by Robert Birsel, Jason Neely, David Evans, Louise Heavens, and David Gregorio)

 

This article originally appeared on reuters.com

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