Oil extended its slide, falling to the lowest in more than two decades, on concern the world is rapidly running out of places to store crude after output cuts proved insufficient to cope with plunging demand.
WTI for May delivery fell 16% to $15.37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as of 9:16 a.m. in Singapore after plummeting 20% last week. It dropped to as low as $14.47, the weakest since March 1999.
Brent for June delivery fell 1.6% to $27.63 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange after losing 10.8% last week.
TLDR: wti price fell because the may contract only left 1 more day. People trying to sell off contract that's valid 1 more day. That's why Brent oil etc didn't fall or move like wti.
Anyway you can sell whatever you have if you want. Advise don't buy in something you don't understand well.
Next thing to check with the management, whether the existing long term contracts will be cancelled or made idle at zero rate. Please ask in the next AGM. Although this company has restructured its debt, it still has debt nonetheless. Maybe another round of restructuring perhaps?
if country bankrupt. we as a normal citizen also bankrupt, ringgit will be devalue, epf will be gone, inflation will be high, unemployment will be. high. look at Greece.
Crazy and crazy for the oil price, breaking 13 and 19 usd now!! How to survive?? Will lot oil related companies bankruptcy if the oil price sustain few months or 1 qtr!!
yaya included velesto!! their cost also no so cheap (wti 12 vs brent 18), how to survive? Anyone can tell me how they can survive to pay all their expenses?? No gain is a problem but now even loss money and getting serious for lower and lower oil price!! Superb crazy!! Cheaper than a bottle of mineral water now!
when oil in trouble, the first thing to go is RIG COUNT drop...follow by service and maintenance required for each rig/platform.
WTI already back to positive territory, tuesday is the last day for March delivery. June still at around $20. Brent is having the same disease now for few days..sama pattern, but will recover coz OPEC sure immediately cut production THIs WEEK. There is a very big difference between having OPEC cartel and non-opec producer, esp in times of uncertainty like this.. OPEC will always prevail.
Investing.com – Wall Street fell on Tuesday, as a plunge in oil prices weighed on investor sentiment, even as Congress readies a $500 billion coronavirus aid package to further support the economy.
The Dow fell 2.67%, or 631 points, theS&P 500 slipped 3,07% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 3.48%.
Worries over a storage squeeze amid a collapsed in fuel demand sent oil prices sharply lower for the second day in a row.
"The EIA reported in October that storage capacity was around 426.5 (million barrels) and was 55% full. Using inventory since then, we calculate that capacity utilization has risen to over 81%," ANZ Research said in a note.
The plunge in energy prices was exacerbated after Railroad Commission of Texas, which oversees oil and gas companies, delayed a vote on mandated production cuts demanded by midsized shale oil drillers.
Despite the plunge in oil prices of more than 40%, energy stocks outperformed the broader market, ending the day down 1.4%.
The selloff in oil stoked worries about loan defaults, pressuring regional banks, which typically carry a larger energy-lending portfolio than that of Wall Street banks.
The Settle KBW Nasdaq Regional Banking Index fell more than 2.5%.
Tech stocks led the day of selling on Wall Street with FANG and chip stocks bearing the brunt. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) fell 4.2%, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) fell 1.6% and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was down 3.08%, while Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) ended down about 0.77%.
Also weighing on tech, IBM (NYSE:IBM) fell 3% after the company pulled guidance and reported quarterly revenue that missed expectations due to the impact from the coronavirus pandemic. On the economic data front, the decline in existing home sales in March was not as bad as many had feared, but the data was largely shrugged off as it did not reflect the full extent of the lockdown measures, which began in mid-March.
But the lockdown measures in some states are nearing an end, with Georgia and South Carolina set to lift lockdown restrictions this week.
News that Congress reached a tentative agreement Tuesday with President Donald Trump on a nearly $500 billion coronavirus relief bill that would top up the $349 billion small business rescue program failed to lift sentiment.
Singapore: US oil prices surged Wednesday after a turbulent start to the week that saw them fall below zero for the first time due to a coronavirus-triggered demand shock.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for June delivery rose 18.93 per cent to $13.76 a barrel, after suffering heavy falls in New York overnight.
WTI for May delivery on Monday collapsed to an unprecedented low of minus $40.32 as traders scrambled to sell it before the contract expired Tuesday, but could find few buyers with storage capacity fast filling up.
European benchmark Brent crude for June delivery was up 0.98 percent at $19.52 a barrel, after tumbling to an 18-year low the previous day.
Velesto, go down a little more can consider to buy back. Opec + will definitely do some more oil output cut coming soon. If go some more down the country will be in recession.
" DickyMe2 Brent crude may break the 2016 low of US$27 and find support around US$23. If that fails expect under US$17. 12/03/2020 11:07 PM" ========================================
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Breaking News from Bloomberg
Oil extended its slide, falling to the lowest in more than two decades, on concern the world is rapidly running out of places to store crude after output cuts proved insufficient to cope with plunging demand.
WTI for May delivery fell 16% to $15.37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange as of 9:16 a.m. in Singapore after plummeting 20% last week. It dropped to as low as $14.47, the weakest since March 1999.
Brent for June delivery fell 1.6% to $27.63 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe exchange after losing 10.8% last week.