Rudra Investment Expert says Commodity Tips Crude oil prices are getting faster today. On Friday, global benchmark Brent crude rose 0.40 percent to $ 80.50 an ounce. Brent crude prices fell nearly 3.4 percent on Thursday. On Thursday, Brent had slipped to $ 79.80 a barrel. Brent's price has dropped 4.2 percent this week.
On the same day, after the heavy fall in yesterday's October contract of crude oil on the domestic futures market ie the MCX was trading at around 5300 with the increase of 0.80%.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures also advanced 0.4 percent to reach around $ 71.23 a barrel. However, in the last session, its price slipped 3 percent. This week the US crude oil benchmark has slumped about 4 percent.
According to Emirates NBD, crude oil stocks in the US almost doubled from the estimates. In the US, crude oil stocks have increased by 60 million barrels, while analysts were estimated to increase by 2.6 million barrels.
The second major reason for the sharp fall in prices is that the OPEC group of crude oil producing countries has cut estimates of crude oil demand. According to OPEC, the demand for crude oil this year is estimated to increase from 12 lakh to 15 million barrels per day.
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