Oil tankers sit anchored off the Fos-Lavera oil hub near Marseille, France, October 15, 2015. Picture taken on October 15, 2015. Unseasonably warm weather and rising supply will keep the crude oil market oversupplied until at least late 2016, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report on Tuesday. Warm winter weather around the world cut global oil demand growth to a one-year low of 1 million barrels per day in the fourth quarter of 2015, down from a near five-year high of 2.1 million bpd in the third quarter. The IEA left its estimate of growth in global demand for 2016 unchanged from its previous monthly report at around 1.2 million bpd. Brent crude futures LCOc1 have fallen to their lowest level since late 2003, tumbling below $30 a barrel, after OPEC said in December it would not cut output to arrest the price slide despite global […]

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