During the three months through the end of June, oil prices just listed their finest quarterly presentation in thirty years, demonstrating a dramatic response after dropping to record in April.
Oil prices just had their best quarter in 30 years — what’s next? https://t.co/5gGGtqqLE7
— CNBC (@CNBC) July 1, 2020
In the second quarter, Brent crude stocks rise steeply above eighty percent. Since the 3rd quarter of 1990, this quarterly performance is known as the best performance of the international benchmark. In the third quarter performance of 1990, the international benchmark had registered surges 142 percent during the first Gulf War.
United States WTI (West Texas Intermediate) futures ramped up ninety-one percent in just 3 months, which is also knowing as the finest quarter performance for the United States crude.
Although achieving unbelievable surges in the previous weeks, both WTI (West Texas Intermediate) and Brent crude are still low above thirty-four percent since the beginning of the year.
2020 considered as the worst year for energy market
The Executive Director of IEA (International Energy Agency), Fatih Birol, said that he hopes 2020 may be considered as totally damaged year in the history of oil markets worldwide, and April is supposed to be the worst month the energy market has ever seen.
On Tuesday, the president of S&P Global Platts, Martin Fraenkel, said to a media outlet, CNBC’s, ‘Squawk Box Europe, that he thinks what they saw with the Coronavirus crisis unprecedented and especially in the oil market, it was fixed with the dislocation of the supply deal between the OPEC nations and Russia at the same time.
Fraenkel added that those two huge events affecting oil prices was ‘a once in a generation chance’ so he doesn’t really imagine that again.
The United States oil prices fell into a severe place for the first time on April 20, and down as negative forty dollars per barrel at the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Furthermore, it means that oil producers were significantly having to pay their traders to take oil.
In late April, the international benchmark Brent hasn’t to enter in negative territory, but it met to its extremes level low condition since 1999, and some veterans of Wall Street mentioned it as ‘unbelievable,’ ‘Scary,’ and ‘very visceral.’
In a research paper published on Wednesday, an oil analyst at PVM oil Association, Stephen Brennock, said that the first half whistle impact sounded on 2020, and it early has the developing of a Hollywood blockbuster.
