17 Mar 2015

Oil falls below new budget benchmark

David Mark and Aminu Tambuwal    
 David Mark and Aminu Tambuwal    

The price of global benchmark Brent crude oil fell about three per cent on Monday to a six-week low of $52.50 per barrel, less than a week after the National Assembly adopted $53 per barrel as the 2015 budget oil price benchmark.



Oil prices dropped by more than 60 per cent between June 2014 and January 2015, but have recently shown signs of stabilising.
Brent crude, against which Nigeria’s oil is priced, bounced back from six-year lows to around $60 per barrel in January, while the United States’ benchmark West Texas Intermediate fluctuated around the $50 mark.

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