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Oil prices to tread water, for now

Despite signs that the global economy continued to slow in October, only coal prices fell. While we expect global growth to remain subdued in the year ahead, we think that a recession will be avoided, which underpins our forecast of somewhat higher prices for most energy commodities in 2020.

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