{"id":414343,"date":"2020-07-08T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T05:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=414343"},"modified":"2020-07-08T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T05:25:44","slug":"oil-rally-stalls-on-demand-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/414343\/oil-rally-stalls-on-demand-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rally stalls on demand concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil was anchored near $41 a barrel with an industry report signaling a surprise gain in US crude stockpiles, while concerns linger about the threat to demand from rising coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p>The American Petroleum Institute reported inventories rose by 2.05 million barrels last week, with Cushing supplies expanding for the first time since early May, according to people familiar with the data. Official figures are due Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the virus set records across the US, with Texas\u2019s daily cases, Arizona\u2019s deaths and California\u2019s hospitalizations hitting new highs.<\/p>\n<p>Oil\u2019s rally from its plunge below zero in April has stalled with rising infections leading to the reintroduction of stricter measures to curb the spread, raising concerns demand may be derailed.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC+ is also poised to ease its historic supply cuts next month, with Reuters reporting the UAE is planning to increase crude exports by as much as 300,000 barrels a day in August.<\/p>\n<p>US\u00a0 gasoline stockpiles fell by 1.83 million barrels last week, the API reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Oil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-414355\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Oil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Oil.jpg 814w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Oil-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Oil-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Energy Information Administration is expected to report inventories of the motor fuel rose by 550,000 barrels, while nationwide crude inventories dropped by 3.25 million, according to a Bloomberg survey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could see WTI trading back below $40 per barrel in the near term, especially if concerns over the surge in Covid-19 cases in the US continues,\u201d said Warren Patterson, head of commodities strategy at ING Bank NV in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market will be watching the gasoline inventory numbers closely, along with implied demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prices<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>West Texas Intermediate for August delivery dropped 0.2% to $40.56 a barrel as of 12:01 p.m. Singapore time on the New York Mercantile Exchange after slipping 1 cent to settle at $40.62 on Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Brent for September settlement was down 0.1% at $43.03 on the ICE Futures Europe exchange after closing 2 cents lower in the previous session<\/li>\n<li>Brent\u2019s one-month time spread was 19 cents in contango, where prompt prices are cheaper than later-dated contracts, the widest since June 24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/408069\/oil-demand-recovery-may-take-a-couple-of-years-energy-agency-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oil demand recovery may take a couple of years, energy agency says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil was anchored near $41 a barrel with an industry report signaling a surprise gain in US crude stockpiles, while concerns linger about the threat to demand from rising coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":297008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-414343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414365,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414343\/revisions\/414365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}