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Oil Holds Near $80, Gold remains Stable

After a four-day rise, oil prices remained above $80 per barrel as traders assessed the implications of a global energy crisis on-demand and industrial output.

West Texas Intermediate fell a tad after reaching its best close since October 2014. According to the IEA’s flagship report, the world is failing to invest in energy on the scale required to avoid severe increases in fossil-fuel costs while avoiding catastrophic climate change. Due to high energy prices, several facilities have reduced output by up to 50%. It could offset the increase in oil usage caused by people switching away from natural gas owing to high pricing. According to traders and statistics provided by Bloomberg, Russian Sokol a diesel rich grade when refined — has touched the most significant premium to the benchmark since January 2020. It indicates the potential for oil to benefit from the gas rally as users seek alternatives.

Crude oil price

Crude has risen this year as the recovery from the pandemic has increased consumption, depleting stocks. Furthermore, as the Northern Hemisphere winter approaches, natural gas and coal shortages have increased the demand for alternate power generation and heating fuels in Asia and Europe.

“Oil prices took a respite for the first time in four days,” said Oilytics founder Keshav Lohiya. Inflation is generally beneficial to commodities. Hence it is a drag on oil consumption, with the Indian and Chinese economies likely to suffer.

The IEA’s head, Fatih Birol, cautioned in the group’s World Energy Outlook that “there is a looming risk of greater instability for global energy markets.” The Paris-based group represents some of the world’s most developed nations, including the United States, Germany, and Japan.

Oil consumption has been rapidly increasing, the OPEC and its allies have been cautious in resuming production halted last year. Later on Wednesday, OPEC will provide its latest monthly overview of world market conditions.

Gold steady

Gold prices remained stable on Wednesday, aided by a slight drop in the dollar, as investors awaited US inflation data to judge the Federal Reserve’s path toward normalizing policy.

By 0305 GMT, spot gold was little changed at $1,760.26 per ounce. Meanwhile, US gold futures increased 0.1 per cent to $1,760.60. Reduced central bank stimulus and interest rate hikes tend to raise government bond yields. This means that owning gold, which pays no interest, has a more significant opportunity cost.

Spot silver rose 0.2% to $22.57 per ounce. Platinum and palladium lost 0.2% to $1,005.00 and $2,041.24 per ounce, respectively.

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