The world’s biggest independent oil trader said crude prices, already up more than 10% this year, could rise even further because of tight supplies.
“These prices are justified,” Mike Muller, head of Asia for Vitol Group, said Sunday. “Strong backwardation is very much justified,” he said, referring to a bullish pattern whereby near-term futures are more expensive than later ones.
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