Oil hovers near 15-month low after banking crisis roils market
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Oil steadied near the lowest closing price in 15 months after a three-day rout started by the U.S. banking crisis and accelerated by options covering.
West Texas Intermediate futures hovered near US$67 a barrel after tumbling around 12% over the previous three sessions. The turmoil whipped up by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and fresh upheaval at Credit Suisse Group AG has reverberated across global assets, with selling in oil gathering pace as firms tried to limit their exposure in the options market.
“Prices are likely to remain volatile given the dimensions of uncertainties over Fed actions, U.S. banking turmoil, and China’s recovery,” Citigroup Inc. analysts Francesco Martoccia and Ed Morse said in a note.
OPEC’s top official earlier this month flagged concerns about slowing demand in Europe and the U.S., and investors will be watching to see if the rout draws a response from the group and its allies. However, traders are abandoning bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates amid the banking turmoil.
A key question hangs over the Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting that ends Wednesday: Will central bank policymakers still reduce short-term interest rates this year, now that the Iran war has sent oil prices higher and gas prices spiking? Or will they have to stand pat for months to see how the conflict plays out?
Wall Street followed global markets higher Wednesday and the price of U.S. crude fell eased despite a new barrage of attacks by Iran on its Gulf neighbors.
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Shares advanced Wednesday in Europe and Asia as oil prices fell back slightly despite a barrage of attacks by Iran on its Gulf neighbours.
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Markets in Canada and the U.S. were up in late-morning trading on Tuesday despite the ongoing war in Iran.
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Oil tankers are crossing the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s actions to choke traffic through the shipping route have not hurt the U.S. economy, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Tuesday, reiterating the Trump administration’s position that the war should be over in weeks, not months.
Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed in February to 1.8 per cent, but many economists believe the new Statistics Canada data may be the dip before a spike driven by oil prices and the war in Iran.