And US West Texas Intermediate crude futures for September 2021 delivery rose 0.6 percent, to $64.07 a barrel, after falling 2.7 percent yesterday. The October 2021 contract, the most active, rose 26 cents to $63.76 a barrel.
New lockdowns in countries facing increasing cases of the mutated delta strain of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...have dampened the outlook for fuel demand.
And China imposed new restrictions in light of its policy of the Corona virus, which requires not to allow any cases of infection, which affected global shipping and supply chains, in the meantime, the outbreak of the "Delta" strain in Australia and New Zealand led to the imposition of strict public isolation measures.