crude today 13-01-2020

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By Srinivas Chowdary Sunkara // petrobazaar // 13th January 2020.

Brent oil futures lost 39 cents to $64.98 and WTI oil futures plummeted 52 cents to $59.04 a barrel on Friday. In Shanghai, crude oil main contract futures prices dropped by 13.3 Yuan or 2.7% at 479.1 Yuan/barrel while MCX crude futures settled down Rs.35 at Rs.4202 on late week. Brent futures traded at a premium of $5.94 over WTI futures during the session.

The world benchmark crude futures indexes moved down on Friday, posted a first weekly loss since late November, Erasing the week&#39s risk premium that was added since the U.S drone attacks on Iran. The way the market gives geopolitical risk premium and  then takes back during the week indicates that the oil markets are not fundamentally supported and the market participants are thinking that there is a lot of oil around the world that consumption doesn&#39t take care of. On the other hand, Traders shifted focus from geo-politics to weekly numbers which broadly supported oil prices. 

Turning to rig numbers, US rig count continued to fall. U.S drillers dropped 11 oil rigs and 4 gas rigs from drilling activity during the last week. In contrast, U.S oil production continued to increase and very likely to see 13Mbpd very soon since the drop in rig numbers will not affect the oil production immediately and will take couple of months to see the decline in production. Today morning, Asian markets are opened in red continuing last week losses. Good day to all.

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