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West Texas Intermediate crude oil was higher slightly by 0.18% to $68.30 a barrel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 0.43% to $71.85 a barrel. Gold was down 0.59% to $2,652.30 an ounce.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI usually refers to the WTI Crude Oil futures contract traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) .
West Texas Intermediate crude oil decreased 3.32% to $73.39 a barrel. Brent crude , the international benchmark, dropped 2.61% to $76.76 a barrel. Gold was lower by 1.03% to $2,533.90 an ounce.
Oil prices reversed course and slid as concerns over weak gasoline demand outweighed worries of crude supply disruptions in Libya. ... Sea area could catapult prices to near $80.00 for WTI ...
Oil traders, Houston, 2009 Nominal price of oil from 1861 to 2020 from Our World in Data. The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (159 litres) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil ...
The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is a broadly diversified commodity price index distributed by Bloomberg Index Services Limited.The index was originally launched in 1998 as the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI) and renamed to Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index (DJ-UBSCI) in 2009, when UBS acquired the index from AIG.
Using benchmarks makes referencing types of oil easier for sellers and buyers. There is always a spread between WTI, Brent and other blends due to the relative volatility (high API gravity is more valuable), sweetness/sourness (low sulfur is more valuable) and transportation cost. This is the price that controls world oil market price.
Oil gained more than 6% on Monday, with WTI crude oil — the U.S. benchmark — trading north of $80 a barrel while the international benchmark price, Brent crude oil, was trading near $85 a barrel.