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By Barani Krishnan; g1 ?* e; Y* [- F
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude futures fell on Friday after Wall Street's most influential voice in oil trading, Goldman Sachs, slashed its price outlook through next year, citing oversupply and concerns about China's economy.
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Joining Germany's Commerzbank and a long list of other banks in cutting price projections, Goldman lowered its 2016 forecast for U.S. crude to $45 a barrel from $57 previously, and Brent to $49.50 from $62.- }$ k+ z" W$ [5 R) D" A
: D7 }' Z, n2 x9 _! f0 H0 V"The oil market is even more oversupplied than we had expected and we forecast this surplus to persist in 2016," Goldman said in a note entitled "Lower for even longer".1 P+ Y8 ~( l* X6 l3 z5 l C2 b
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Citing "operational stress" as a growing downside risk to its forecast, Goldman said crude could fall further to near $20 a barrel. "While not our base case, the potential for oil prices to fall to such levels ... is becoming greater as9 ]& t" Q( n9 E; V) N
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storage continues to fill."
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U.S. crude futures' front-month contract <CLc1> was down $1, or 2.2 percent, at $44.92 a barrel by 11:54 a.m. EDT.
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The front-month in Brent <LCOc1>, the global benchmark for oil, was off 70 cents, or 1.3 percent, at $48.19.
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) {8 ]+ c( D( L: V6 dBoth crude benchmarks had fallen about 3 percent, before paring loses with stocks on Wall Street. The U.S. stocks have provided direction to oil over the last two weeks as investors grappled with mixed fundamentals for crude.* s) w! n6 D) |( k. Q9 ]+ \0 U
- P+ F3 ], e# D! s p: o. H7 QThe oil market is waiting next for a weekly reading of the U.S. oil rig count, due at 1:00 p.m. ET. The data will show for whether oil producers were cutting back on drilling as prices head lower again after a brief rebound in the second quarter.
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% `5 L" \# J8 r* C% o5 ]( P" r" ^Crude prices have more than halved over the past year, with Brent tumbling from nearly $120 a barrel in the middle of 2014 to below $43 last month. Prices collapsed as a global glut of crude pushed commercial and government inventories to all-time highs.
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! f& Y4 [8 l0 T0 B, cAnalysts say the market is rebalancing, but high stocks will keep weighing on prices into next year.( u* d( ]: A2 u' r/ G
' L& [8 p2 ?4 d+ R0 }Germany's Commerzbank said Brent was likely to trade at $55 by the end of 2015, and around $65 by end-2016.0 {; }9 \2 p8 W% _/ E5 G' `% i
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Investors shrugged off a report from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which advises the world's biggest economies on energy policy. The IEA said a move by the world's big oil exporters in OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, to defend their market share by not reducing production, appeared to be working.
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1 _- W$ s3 o! [6 R; k5 K$ @* V(Additional reporting by Lisa Barrington and Christopher Johnson in London and Meeyoung Cho in Seoul; Editing by Nick Zieminski and David Gregorio) |
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