Oil prices increased to their highest level in ten months due to a reduction in China’s reserve ratio

On Friday, oil prices reached their highest point in ten months as a result of China reducing the amount of cash reserves that banks were required to hold in order to support its economic recovery and amid anticipation that the major cycles of global interest rate hikes were coming to an end. West Texas Intermediate…

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Prices of crude oil decline due to concerns that future rate increases will reduce demand for gasoline.

As investors took profits on worries that future interest rate increases by central banks might stifle economic growth and global fuel demand, oil prices declined on Thursday, erasing some of the gains made the day before. The price of Brent crude futures had decreased by 27 cents, or 0.4%, to $73.76 per barrel. American West…

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