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U.S. crude settled at $55.69 after a 7.1% drop, marking a 12th straight daily decline, a record for the contract. Expectations of a global oil supply glut drove the benchmark to its lowest close of the year and deepened its slide into a bear market.
Expectations of a supply glut point to sustained weakness in crude, which lowers energy costs but signals softer demand momentum across the energy complex.
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Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.