Fundamental analysis
27 May, 2022
During most of the European trade, the price of crude oil has slipped further since this morning. The beginning of the driving season in the USA this weekend, mostly low levels of oil and derivatives, with further decline and uncertainty regarding the EU's decision to impose an embargo on oil imports from Russia, all together, pushes the price of oil up. An official government report on the state of stocks showed the day before yesterday afternoon that the stocks of crude oil in the USA dropped by 1.02 million barrels. On the other hand, the head of the World Bank, David Malpass, warned yesterday that the war in Ukraine could lead to a global recession, given the rise in the prices of energy, food and artificial fertilizers. The EU is still trying to persuade Hungary to agree to sanctions on oil imports from Russia. A meeting of EU leaders will be held on Monday and Tuesday. At around 1:20 p.m., crude oil traded at $ 113.52 a barrel, down 0.41% from trading tonight.