Oil in sharp decline on international markets in the wake of fears about the advance of Covid in China and the strategy implemented by Beijing to counter its spread, which risks having an impact on global growth and on the demand for crude oil by the Chinese giant .
The wti, the Texan crude oil, falls below 100 dollars a barrel (-3.3% to 98.8 dollars) while the North Sea brent loses 3.2% to 103.28 dollars. Beijing authorities have warned that the virus is “silently spreading”.
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