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    Oil prices fall upon resurging COVID-19 cases in US

    July 3, 2020
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    *World oil outlook.

    OpeOluwani Akintayo
    with agency report

    Lagos — Oil prices dropped on Thursday after the United States announced its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus cases, leading to a re imposed lockdown in California.

    The drop in prices rested on market worries that the resurging virus cases would affect growing fuel demand.

    U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 10 cents, or 0.3 per cent, to $39.72 a barrel at 0148 GMT, trimming a 1.4 per cent rise from Wednesday.

    Brent crude futures eased six cents, or 0.1 per cent, to $41.97 a barrel, after rising 1.8 per cent in the previous session.

    California sharply rolled back efforts to reopen its economy on Wednesday, banning indoor restaurant dining in much of the state, closing bars and beefing up enforcement of social distancing and other measures as COVID-19 infections surged.

    Analysts highlighted worries about the spike in cases in heavily populated U.S. sun-belt states, which are among the country’s biggest consumers of gasoline.

    New U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters’ tally, in the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic.

    More than half the new cases each day are in Arizona, California, Florida and Texas.

    Oil prices rose in the previous session after U.S. Energy Information Administration data showed U.S. crude inventories fell 7.2 million barrels from a record high last week, far more than analysts had expected, as refiners ramped up production and imports eased.

    However, analysts noted the data also showed gasoline stockpiles rose due to a sharp increase in imports, against expectations for inventories to fall.

    “Counter-seasonal builds in gasoline inventories as stockpiles unexpectedly rose are not precisely a bullish delight,’’ AxiCorp strategist, Stephen Innes, said in a note.

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    “The EIA data showed that gasoline imports hit the highest level since last August and peaked the most on a seasonal basis in nine years.’’

    All eyes will be on driving activity in the U.S. over the upcoming July 4 holiday weekend and how quickly U.S. producers revive shut-in production, analysts said.

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    *Reuters

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