Oil prices dropped over 10 percent Monday as a deteriorating world economy threatened to cut further into fuel consumption, outweighing OPEC's strong compliance with supply curbs.
The deepening of the 14-month economic slump was underscored by a report showing spending on construction projects slumped to its lowest level in over fours years in January.
Economic woes were also battering financial markets and making it likely the International Monetary Fund would downgrade its global growth forecasts into negative territory.U.S. light, sweet crude [US@CL.1 40.06 -4.70 (-10.5%)] dropped $4.61, or 10.3 percent, to settle at $40.15 a barrel. London Brent crude [GB@IB.1 42.16 -4.19 (-9.04%)] also traded lower.
The deepening recession has crimped demand for oil worldwide and sent oil prices off record peaks over $147 a barrel in July, prompting OPEC to pledge cuts totaling 4.2 million barrels per day (bpd) since September.
A Reuters survey showed the group enforced 81 percent of the curbs last month, with production down for the sixth straight month in February."Although, OPEC, by all counts, is doing a good job in complying to its quota levels, it looks like flat price is being driven by the deteriorating global economic environment as reflected in the Dow Jones (industrial average),'' said Nauman Barakat, senior vice president at Macquarie Futures USA. more...
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