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Oil falls near US$103
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The price of oil fell for the seventh time in eight days yesterday, as the US signaled a willingness to pursue a diplomatic path with Iran.
US benchmark oil for November delivery fell 46 cents to finish at US$103.13 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest close since July 30, after hitting a day low of US$102.30 earlier. Oil has dropped 6.7 percent since closing at a two-year high of US$110.53 on Sept. 6.
Some analysts said that a seeming thaw in relations between Iran and Western powers and apparent diplomatic progress over the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons were easing fears of a potential disruption in oil supplies.
President Barack Obama yesterday welcomed the new Iranian government's pursuit of a "more moderate course," saying it should offer the basis for a breakthrough on Iran's nuclear impasse with the United Nations and the US.
Sanctions against Iran's oil sector have cut the Islamist Republic's exports from 2.5 million barrels in 2011 to 1.2 million.
Obama also called on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution that would enforce consequences on Syrian President Bashar Assad if he fails to follow a US-Russian deal to turn his chemical weapon stockpiles over to the international community. That deal, brokered by Secretary of State John Kerry, averted a threatened US military strike.
Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, wrote in a note to clients that much of the recent selling "would appear to represent a process of 'throwing in the towel' as a result of a need to downsize geopolitical risk premium by at least US$5 to US$6 a barrel."
In other markets, Brent crude, the benchmark for international crudes used by many US refineries, rose 48 cents to US$108.64 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 4 cents to US$2.66 per gallon.
— Natural gas lost 11 cents to US$3.49 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil was flat at US$2.96 per gallon.
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