PRICES
- West Texas Intermediate for December delivery fell $2.07 to $81.35 a barrel at 12:04 p.m. in New York
- Brent for December settlement dropped $1.96 to $83.86 a barrel
Futures in New York declined as much as 3.2% on Thursday after holding at the highest since 2014 this week. Technical indicators have signaled oil has been due for a pullback since earlier this month. Meanwhile, the resurgence of lockdowns in Eastern Europe and Russia due to rising coronavirus cases are threatening the global economic recovery that has buoyed commodities and energy markets.
The possibility of a winter with economic lockdowns worldwide complicates the bullish economic outlook, said Ed Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda Corp. “There’s been a little bit of loss of momentum and that’s the real pain of the global economy.”
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