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Oil Continues Rise as Supply Concerns Mount

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Oil prices were mixed Tuesday morning, even as crude prices held to near four-year highs amid growing signs of shrinking global supply.

Brent crude, the global benchmark, was down 0.61% to $84.46 a barrel on London’s Intercontinental Exchange . On the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate futures were trading flat at $74.29 a barrel.


West Texas Intermediate graph

Both crude benchmarks closed up nearly 3% Monday.

“Concerns about tight supply are driving oil prices significantly further up,” according to analysts at Commerzbank .

“News that China is now also reducing its oil purchases from Iran presumably gave the final push. This is likely to see Iranian oil exports fall by 1.5 to 2 million barrels per day,” the analysts wrote in a daily

via WSJ

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