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US oil trades at negative prices for first time in history

• dredmorbius 6y ago
  http://archive.li/bwGSd http://archive.li/bwGSd
• 101404 6y ago
  So, what country will the US attack to fix this?
  • tehjoker 6y ago
    The funny thing is it's in part our great friends in Saudi Arabia doing this to us.
• ccffpphh 6y ago
  This is due to more of a market structure issue - the May contract expires tomorrow and the negative price really just reflects the price of storing crude. Why? There's nowhere to store it, demand is incredibly low, tankers and reserves are all filled up thus whoever holds the contract on settlement is responsible for storage, thus the negative price. Look at the June contract for something more accurate. That being said, I expect something like this to transpire for June as well, possibly earlier than just a day from expiry, so long as production stays above 0 and demand stays as low if not lower.
• deleted 6y ago
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