OIL TURNS RED

What happened that drove WTI crude prices into the negative

For as long as it can be pumped out of the ground, oil will be a tradable commodity. But on Monday, the going price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil dove below $0 and settled at -$37.63. How can anything have negative value? It took an unprecedented chain of events to erase WTI crude’s current value and it started with the Russian-Saudi price war. At a Mar...

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