How will be crude price movement in near term? Jonathan Barratt answers
«If you look at OPEC and their announcements in terms of usage, they continue to revise the fact that consumption is actually going down over time. And we do hear that coming from them,» says Jonathan Barratt, CIO, Probis Securities.
I think that we have seen this volatile move in crude oil prices ever since we saw Iran launching that ballistic missile against Israel. We saw that spike in crude oil prices. And ever since then, we have been monitoring the movement quite closely. How are you looking at all of these developments and where it is likely to take crude oil prices from here on?
Jonathan Barratt: Look, obviously a lot of volatility, crude prices under a lot of pressure. I guess there is a sense of relief that we get that Israel has decided, based on what the US has maybe just told Israel, that they would not attack any of Iran's oil facilities and we get a sense of relief that. And part of that geopolitical risk has sort of come off. But we have also got other influences there in oil prices, which are making it come down at the moment and that is also, of course, China and some of the weak data we are getting out of there. So, there are some major things at the moment and at the moment, they are causing the price of oil to come lower.
We have not heard anything from OPEC so far. It is like we say, silence on the lips. They have just not reacted. Why is that?
Jonathan Barratt: If you look at OPEC and their announcements in terms of usage, they continue to revise the fact that consumption is actually going
