Скачать или смотреть Oil prices crash and markets tumble

The price of US oil has fallen below the symbolic threshold of 50 dollars a barrel for the first time since April 2009.

Benchmark Brent crude also tumbled about six percent to below 53 dollars a barrel.

The price of both - known as West Texas Intermediate crude have lost more than half their value since mid-2014.

Brent had a dramatic drop at the tail end of the year and during 2014 slumped a total of 48 percent, the most since the 2008 financial crisis. A global supply glut and weak demand co…
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