据10月14日FX Empire报道，周三伦敦交易时段，原油价格小幅上涨，原因是新冠肺炎病例正迅速接近令人担忧的水平。最近从约翰霍普金斯大学获取的数据显示，全球病例数达到了3800万。
报告期间，两大主要原油基准价格(包括布伦特原油和西德克萨斯中质原油)均在每桶40美元以上。尽管如此，原油价格仍面临压力，由于原油看涨者在接近43美元/桶的临界阻力位时似乎暂停了，因此原油看涨者掌管了亚洲交易时段。这几个月来，这一价格水平对于石油多头来说已经很难再突破了，再加上原油的供需很难恢复到疫情爆发前的水平。
布伦特原油价格仍在40美元/桶的水平上，显示出相当强劲的势头，在每桶42.50- 43.20美元的水平附近可以观察到获利回吐，因为石油交易商似乎受到了高地缘政治不确定性的影响，但布伦特原油价格似乎不太可能跌破每桶38.50美元的水平。
国际能源署警告称,能源消费要恢复到危机前的水平大约需要三年时间，从长期来看，这肯定会增加油价的压力，这意味着2021年第一季度原油价格不太可能达到60美元/桶的价格水平。
王佳晶 摘译自 FX Empire
原文如下：
Oil Traders Crude oil prices gained slightly higher at London’s trading session Recent data retrieved from Johns Hopkins University data showed the number of global cases reached 38 million.
At the time of writing both major crude oil benchmarks, which include Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate futures traded above $40/Barrel.
Still, crude oil prices remain under pressure, Brent crude prices still show a significant amount of strength at the $40/barrel price level but profit-taking is observed around the $42.50-$43.20 price levels as oil traders seemed to be exposed by the aurora of high geopolitical uncertainty. That said it’s seems unlikely for Brent crude prices to breach below the $38.50/barrel level.
Also taking note of the recent report released by the International Energy Agency warning that it will take about three years for energy consumption to return to pre-crisis levels, will definitely add pressure on oil prices in the long term, meanings it’s very unlikely to see the price of crude at the price level of $60/Barrel in Q1, 2021.