(Bloomberg) — To understand why physical crude oil prices are rising across Europe, look to Russia.The country, one of the world’s largest producers, is curbing its exports to multi-year lows. That’s helped to increase demand for other European grades and recently boosted their values in the market where actual barrels of oil are traded.Combined shipments of Urals crude from Russia’s Baltic and Black Sea ports are set at about 880,000 barrels a day in the first 10 days of July, according to Bloomberg calculations from loading programs. If that rate holds for the remainder of the month, it would be …read more
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