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    Oil Price Dips Below $30 Per Barrel

    Written by Peter Wright


    The West Texas Intermediate crude price has fallen through $30 per barrel for the first time since September 2003.

    Normally our price data comes from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), but their data is not keeping up with today’s collapsing market. Their latest was March 6 when they published a price of $42.24 per barrel for WTI. This month we researched commodity prices from Markets Insider, which publishes trading prices by the second. On the morning of March 17, the price was $29.16 for WTI and $29.25 for Brent. The price of natural gas published by Markets Insider on Tuesday morning was $1.78/MM BTU at the Henry Hub in Louisiana, which was only a few cents below the price published by the EIA for March 6. The price of gas is not collapsing.

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