据道琼斯4月15日消息,因市场对主要产油国本周末能否达成限产协议持怀疑态度,原油期货周五创出近两周来最大跌幅。
分析师们表示,油价连续三天下跌后目前预示出本周日高度期待的产油国会谈之后原油市场可能的走势,参加会议的包括欧佩克成员国以及以俄罗斯为首的非欧佩克产油国。这些全球最大产油国将开始协作以提振油价的可能性已经刺激油价创出多年来的最大幅度涨势,但很多人认为它们不太可能达成协议,因此在会谈后油价将再次下跌。
纽约商交所五月交割的轻质低硫原油期货下跌1.14美元,至每桶40.36美元,跌幅2.75%。本周美国原油期货上涨1.6%,为过去9周中第八周上涨。
欧洲ICE期货交易所的布伦特原油期货结算价下跌74美分,至每桶43.10美元,跌幅1.7%。布伦特原油期货本周上涨2.8%。
庞晓华摘译自道琼斯
原文如下:
Oil Slides Ahead of High-Stakes Meeting
By Timothy Puko and Georgi Kantchev
Oil prices posted their largest slide in nearly two weeks on doubts that major producers can agree on supply curbs when they meet over the weekend.
Three straight days of losses are now foreshadowing what may become of the oil markets after a highly anticipated meeting Sunday between leaders of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC producers, primarily Russia, analysts said. The possibility that the world's biggest producers will start working together to boost prices has spurred oil's sharpest rally in years, but many believe that a deal is unlikely and that oil prices will sell off again after the meeting.
Light, sweet crude for May delivery settled down $1.14, or 2.75%, to $40.36 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For the week, the contract ended up 1.6% for its eighth winning week in the last nine.
Brent, the global benchmark, settled down 74 cents, or 1.7%, at $43.10 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. It also ended the week higher by 2.8%.