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Oil resumed falling on growing concerns about the COVID-19 situation in China

Oil resumed falling on growing concerns about the COVID-19 situation in China



International benchmarks for crude oil settled lower on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 as growing concerns over the COVID-19 situation in China weighed on the market. Besides, the Russian oil supply via the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary has been resumed after a brief outage.

Brent fell $1 or 1.1% to close at $92.86/barrel.

WTI slid $1.33 or 1.5% to close at $85.59/barrel.