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Crude
oil Price: Oil prices slashed in Asia Monday following strong US
dollar. A stronger greenback makes dollar-priced oil more expensive for
buyers using weaker currencies, denting demand and pushing prices lower.
Prices slashed for Crude Oil in Asia, on strong US Dollar
Crude oil Price: Oil prices
slashed in Asia Monday following strong US dollar. A stronger greenback
makes dollar-priced oil more expensive for buyers using weaker
currencies, denting demand and pushing prices lower.
“As the US dollar continues to rally today, the demand for oil will
fall and it is hard to see any respite to the oil market at the moment,”
David Lennox, resource analyst at Fat Prophets in Sydney, said.The US dollar bought 120.92 Japanese yen in Asian trade on Monday, up from 120.78 yen late Friday after the release of the February US jobs report. It stood at 120.14 yen on Thursday.
Despite bad winter weather, the world’s largest economy added 295,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 per cent, the lowest level since May 2008.
Lennox said downward pressure came US inventories stand at record levels, adding to flush global supplies.
The US Department of Energy last week said commercial crude inventories jumped 10.3 million barrels in the week February 27, reaching new record for the fifth consecutive weak.
Crude prices lost about 60 per cent of their value to about $40 between June and late January owing to an oversupply in world markets, a weak global economy and a strong dollar.
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