| The current oil price decline can be explained by heavy selling in US future markets which is part of an all-out economic war between the US and countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela, says financial journalist, Willem Middelkoop. The current price can only partially be explained by technical factors like growing US oil production which increased by a million barrels per day in the last year.
But I think it’s quite reasonable to expect that the price declines, which we’ve seen over the last few months, were also caused by heavy selling in the American future markets, and you could call that a form of economic warfare – it is an [all]-out economic war between the US and Russia now. If we see who has more problems [caused] by current oil – they are Russia, Iran, Venezuela – these countries can be seen as enemies of the US...............................................Full Article: Source
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