Damn, oil is down again. I wish the Fed would stop making those dovish, loose money statements!
Oil Declines as Analysts Say Global Supply Glut to Linger
By Mark Shenk and Moming Zhou Jan 8, 2015 12:24 PM MT
Oil headed for the lowest level in more than five years as analysts said a global supply glut will linger through the first half of 2015.
Crude has dropped by more than half since June as U.S. output surged and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to maintain its production ceiling.
Saudi Arabia won’t cut its output, though producers outside the group are welcome to do so,
Ali Al-Naimi, that country’s oil minister, said at a conference in
Abu Dhabi last month. Today’s decline accelerated as the dollar strengthened.
“The Saudis are providing no support for the market,” Helima Croft, chief commodities strategist at RBC Capital in New York, said by phone. “It looks like they will let prices continue to fall, taking as much non-OPEC production offline as possible.”