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A downward revision to the 2019 oil price forecast

Changes to our wider global macroeconomic and market forecasts have prompted us to re-assess the outlook for oil prices. We now expect slower growth in global demand and rising US production to return the oil market to a comfortable surplus by end-2019, which will prompt a renewed fall in the price.

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