Lower economic growth expectations mean the forecast for global oil demand is down, but should recover in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. The Paris-based IEA released its monthly market report for October, saying it cut its oil demand prediction for the year by 200,000 barrels per day from the previous month’s report to 92.4 million bpd. The IEA attributed the decline to lower economic growth . In its monthly report, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept oil demand growth predictions steady at 1.05 million bpd for 2014. “Annual demand growth for 2014 is now projected at 700,000 bpd, rising tentatively to 1.1 million bpd in 2015 as the macroeconomic backdrop improves,” IEA said in its forecast. OPEC last week said the global economy should grow by 0.6 percent next year to […]