-
Crude oil futures fell in Asian trading on Monday after the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for global crude demand.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in December traded at USD91.47 a barrel on Monday, down 0.88%, off from a session high of USD91.45 and up from an earlier session low of USD91.49.
The International Energy Agency trimmed its forecasts for 2012 and 2013 oil demand by 100,000 barrels a day for each year from forecasts made in September.
The news sent oil prices falling on concerns a cooling global economy will need less fuels and energy to operate.
Uncertainty over Spain's intentions to request a bailout kept oil lower as well.
Ongoing Middle East tensions bolstered the commodity though bears outnumbered the bulls during the session.
On the ICE Futures Exchange, Brent oil futures for December delivery were down 0.53% and trading at USD112.97 a barrel, up USD21.50 from its U.S. counterpart.
-
The previous candle on Oil is an inside bar candle. So, in my opinion the last Friday's high and low will be a critical points of Oil today, the breakout movement may happens today. But, we can see on the chart that Oil has broken the last Friday's low. It will open a way for Oil to fall today. Maybe Oil will break 90.76 support level and continue falling to the lower support level at 89.28.
-
Such an result would normally bode well for raw, with prices supported along with the variety of growth-sensitive resources by the possibilities of included support for the dropping financial restoration.
-
Price oil closed candle daily recent near barrier 91.45, and begins today passively make us expect to see miles bearish in the coming period, but, as we pointed out earlier, with the high risk they can take advantage of the trading side, where the confirmation destination following the long intraday and short is throughovercome a sensitive levels between support 87.95 and resistance 92.65
-
short positions at 90.9300 with 89.0200 and 87.400 as next targets
the break out of 92.6900 wil call for arebound towards 94.3500
-
Expected trading range for this week between: Support 87.95 Resistance 94.00
General tendency is expected for this week: neutral
-
Crude oil futures were lower during European morning hours on Monday, as concerns over China’s economy and worries about future oil demand prospects dampened the appeal of the commodity.
Losses were limited as investors continued to monitor rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, amid fears over a disruption to supplies from the region.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light sweet crude futures for delivery in December traded at USD92.02 a barrel during European morning trade, shedding 0.3%.
Earlier in the day, prices fell by as much as 1.05% to hit a session low of USD91.31 a barrel.
Official data released earlier showed that Chinese consumer prices rose 1.9% in September from the year-ago period, in line with expectations and down from 2.0% in August, while producer price inflation fell 3.6%, also in line with expectations.
The data came after a report over the weekend showed that Chinese exports grew 9.9% on the year in September, above expectations for a 5.5% gain. Imports rose 2.4% from a year earlier, in line with expectations.
Oil traders were now looking ahead to Chinese third quarter growth figures due out on October 18, to gauge whether the world second largest economy is heading towards a hard or a soft landing.
The Asian nation is the world's second largest oil consumer after the U.S. and has been the engine of strengthening demand.
Investors were jittery as uncertainty over Spain’s position on formally requesting a bailout from its euro zone partners persisted.
Market players have been anticipating for the past month that the Spanish government would ask for a full-scale sovereign bailout.
A bailout would allow the European Central Bank to step in and buy Spanish sovereign debt, which would result in reduced borrowing costs for the debt-strapped nation.
But Spain has been reluctant to do so because it may come with conditions on its budget.
European Union policymakers will hold a two-day summit in Brussels starting on October 18 to discuss ways to firewall and extinguish the debt crisis as well as Greece's steps towards fiscal recovery.
But prices remained supported as investors focused on escalating tensions between Syria and Turkey and the possibility that Iran could support Syria in such a dispute.
Tensions between Turkey and Syria have been growing since Syrian shells last week killed five people in a Turkish border village.
Growing tensions between Iran and Israel also remain in focus. There are fears that an escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran could set off a conflict across the region and send oil prices skyrocketing.
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa were responsible for 36% of global oil production and held 52% of proved reserves in 2011.
Elsewhere, on the ICE Futures Exchange, Brent oil futures for December delivery eased down 0.15% to trade at USD113.41 a barrel, with the spread between the Brent and crude contracts standing at USD21.39 a barrel.
London-traded Brent prices have been well-supported in recent sessions, as a combination of lingering concerns over a disruption to supplies from the Middle East and worries over declining production in the North Sea-region have been boosting prices.
-
Oil was the formation of a converging triangle, given obscheyu tend to strengthen the dollar index will think of reducing the support 91.12 and probably what will happen and break of this level resulting in 90.00.
-
\\\\\Oil was the formation of a converging triangle, given obscheyu tend to strengthen the dollar index will think of reducing the support 91.12 and probably what will happen and break of this level resulting in 90.00.\\\\\
-
|||||Oil was the formation of a converging triangle, given obscheyu tend to strengthen the dollar index will think of reducing the support 91.12 and probably what will happen and break of this level resulting in 90.00.\||||||