Pump prices join oil’s wild ride but risk slamming brakes on recovery | Malay Mail

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LONDON, March 17 — With oil prices surging as producers curb supply, fuel prices in many countries have hit multi-year and even all-time highs despite the pandemic knocking demand by millions of barrels per day. The high prices at the pump could hamper a slow and fragile economic recovery as they...

Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021 10:56 PM MYT

Yet by standing firm and not easing its output curbs, Opec+ may be contributing to the slow recovery by pushing up prices, Standard Chartered said in a report. This, despite still weakened demand. Global oil demand fell by almost 10 per cent due to the pandemic in 2020 from more than 100 million barrels per day in 2019.

“We see significantly higher pump prices in developing countries, which can undermine demand growth, especially beyond the structural rebound from the pandemic lows,” said Cuneyt Kazokoglu, head of oil demand analysis at FGE.Fuel prices have touched record highs in parts of India, and have already hit demand.

 

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