Morning Oil Report 26/10/20

Brent crude was down 89 cents, or 2.1%, at $40.88 by 0647 GMT. U.S. WTI dropped 89 cents, or 2.2%, to $38.96. Brent fell 2.7% last week and WTI dropped 2.5%.   The weekend provided a plethora of different stories for crude and oil news this weekend in what has been a month predominantly dominated …

Oil Through the Looking Glass 23.10.2020

*Oil Holds Near $42, Heads for Weekly Loss as Virus Cases Surge* Oil looks to post a first weekly loss in the last three as COVID looks to sweep through the northern hemisphere in a second wave, on top of mounting supply pressures from Libya, following the lifting of the 8-month blockade on oil exports …

Declining trade volumes due to slow steel demand

A total of 1.39 million mt of iron ores was traded for the week ended Oct 23, down almost 7.33% week-on-week as compared to the 1.5 million mt recorded last week. The decline in trading volumes was due to slowing steel demand as the peak construction came to end, while trade participants prepared for the …

DCE closes lower on high port inventory

Iron ore futures slumped throughout the session and closed lower due to high iron ore port inventory and output restriction in Tangshan. Thus, the most-traded iron ore for January 2021 delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange nosedived since market opening by 3.14% day-on-day to RMB 771.50 per mt on Friday. The steel rebar contract on …