dow up 900...crude up $3.30...bodes well for tomorrowWest Texas Intermediate for June delivery jumped more than 8% on Monday, one day ahead of the contract’s expiration, as production cuts and the easing of stay-at-home restrictions supported prices.
Producers are significantly throttling back output and, with demand increasing, the market is on a slow path towards recovery,” said Rystad Energy’s senior oil markets analyst Paola Rodriguez Masiu. “Faced with meager demand and unattractive low prices, production curtailments came faster and deeper than initially anticipated.”