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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

February 2015 Monthly Average Crude Oil Price

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The monthly average U.S.-dollar price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil took a breather from its seven-month plunge when edging up $3.36 to $50.58 per barrel in February. The price drop coincided with a strengthening U.S. dollar, the lagged impacts of a 311,000 barrel-per-day (BPD) increase in the amount of oil supplied/demanded in December (to 19.5 million BPD), and a seemingly unstoppable accumulation of crude oil stocks (to the highest levels since 1982). The monthly average price spread between Brent crude (the predominant grade used in Europe) and WTI widened by $6.98 in February, to $7.52 per barrel. 
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With futures prices in “contango” (i.e., near-term contracts are priced lower than later-term contracts), we do not expect significant additional fallout in spot oil prices. 
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