Oil Dips on China Covid Woes, But Goldman Still Bullish On Market Prospects
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Friday January 22, 2021
The one-two punch of
U.S. crude inventories resulted on Friday in a price decline of two key oil benchmarks.
Brent dipped
86 cents, or
4.4 million barrels in the most recent week, compared to expectations for a
1.2 million barrel draw;
Tony Headrick, energy market analyst at
CHS Hedging, pointed out that "Crude oil exports did fall quite dramatically, which is the main reason for a decent build overall in crude stocks."
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Mark Oberstoetter, research director, Wood Mackenzie
Still,
Goldman Sachs on Friday struck an optimistic tone by pointing out that the new U.S. administration's plans for huge fiscal spending and little urgency to lift sanctions on