A ceiling may be fast approaching for crude oil prices as U.S. supply pressures re-emerge in response to rising production, analysis find. The price for Brent crude oil, the global standard, topped $56 per barrel this week in a market upswing as traders express confidence about a return to an era of balance. Higher production from some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and from U.S. shale tipped the scales since the middle of the decade and eventually pushed crude oil prices to historic lows last year. OPEC in November agreed to a managed decline and crude oil prices responded by building back roughly $20 per barrel from historic lows. That’s had the unintended […]