Oil steadied after a two-day drop as OPEC+ may discuss fast-tracking its latest round of supply hikes when members gather this weekend.
West Texas Intermediate traded near $62 a barrel, after falling more than 5% in the first two days of the week, while Brent closed above $66. The alliance is slated to discuss potentially lifting output in three monthly installments of 500,000 barrels a day to recoup market share, a delegate said. Still, OPEC said in a statement that it didn't have such a plan.
In wider markets, traders were counting down to a possible US government shutdown should Congress fail to meet a funding deadline in the next few hours. US equity futures edged lower in early Asia trading.
Crude capped a back-to-back monthly drop in September, as an earlier round of OPEC+ supply hikes bolstered expectations that global output will run ahead of demand. While stockpiling by China — the world's largest oil importer — has lent some support to prices in recent quarters, the International Energy Agency has predicted that there'll be a record surplus next year.
Investors also assessed a mixed US industry report on stockpiles. While nationwide oil holdings fell 3.7 million barrels last week, inventories of gasoline and distillates expanded, the American Petroleum Institute reported.
Source: Bloomberg
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