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Oil prices set to test US$60 lows by end-2025 as supplies surge after Mid-East ceasefire

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As oil prices fell this week, the cost of shipping Middle East crude to Asia also declined by 17 per cent to 55.50 Worldscale points.

As oil prices fell this week, the cost of shipping Middle East crude to Asia also declined by 17 per cent to 55.50 Worldscale points.

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SINGAPORE – Tensions in the Middle East may linger but oil prices for the rest of the year have only one way to go – down.

Fears of a supply cut failed to materialise during the so-called 12-day war between Israel and Iran, which was deemed to have

ended with a ceasefire on June 24

following an unprecedented US air strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities on June 22.

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