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Aug 2022
10m 53s

Oil jumps as IEA warns of 'substantial' ...

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US equities could hardly consolidate gains they posted following the Wednesday’s softer-than-expected inflation data in the US, even as the producer price index printed the first monthly decline since April 2020. The barrel of US crude rebounded to $94 as the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that the biggest US oil companies’ combined defi ... Show More
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