The OPEC+ committee ‘closely assesses’ the market but makes no recommendations on oil quotas

A significant OPEC+ advisory group remained silent on production policy on February 1, thereby maintaining the present output restrictions. Under the co-chair ship of Saudi Arabia and Russia, the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee declared that it would “continue to closely assess market conditions” and that the 22-member producer coalition was prepared to modify output levels…

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The IMF raised its 2024 forecast for global economic growth, which caused crude oil prices to spike

The International Monetary Fund’s optimistic growth projection for the global economy in 2024 was met with strong performance from crude oil, which ended up 1.23% at 6478. Fears about the implications for the biggest user of crude oil in the world were stoked by this event. Regarding supply, for the most of 2023, Iran was…

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