(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Oil prices traded sideways on Friday after briefly rising nearly
$1 per barrel, as the market balanced fears of slower demand from
cooling U.S. economic activity with supply uncertainty, Trend reports with reference
to Reuters .
Brent crude futures were trading down 5 cents, or 0.1%, at
$110.00 a barrel by 0310 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate
(WTI) crude futures were up 19 cents, or 0.2%, at $104.46 a barrel.
Prices fell around 1.5% in the previous session.
Crude futures slipped back into sell mode after U.S.
manufacturing and services PMIs came in well below expectations,
along with a downswing in Germany's manufacturing data, said
Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.
'Under these conditions, higher crude oil prices will become
super sensitive to any perceived or otherwise increased supply
inputs,' Innes said, noting signs of Russian crude hitting the oil
complex and mounting pressure on OPEC to boost output.
OPEC and allied producing countries including Russia will likely
stick to a plan for accelerated output increases in August in hopes
of easing crude prices and inflation as U.S. President Joe Biden
plans to visit Saudi Arabia, sources said.
The group known as OPEC+ agreed at its last meeting on June 2 to
boost output by 648,000 barrels a day in July, or 7% of global
demand, and by the same amount in August, up from the initial plan
to add 432,000 barrels per day a month over three months until
September.
However, the group has struggled to hit the monthly increase
targets due to underinvestment in oilfields by some OPEC members
and, more recently, losses in Russian output.
Official weekly estimates for U.S. oil inventories were
scheduled to be released on Thursday but technical problems will
delay those figures until next week, the U.S. Energy Information
Administration said, without giving a specific timeline.
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