OIL TURNS RED

What happened that drove WTI crude prices into the negative

OIL TURNS RED
OIL TURNS RED

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 March 5, 2020, summit meeting …