Oil slips on economic slowdown, as OPEC-led cuts still support
Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at 67.03 dollars per barrel at 0231 GMT, down 13 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their last close, but not far off the 68.14 dollars per barrel 2019-high reached last week.
In Asia, Japan’s exports fell for a third straight month in February in a sign of growing strain from slowing global demand. The International Energy Agency said on Friday it expected oil markets to be in a modest deficit from the second quarter.
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