April 2020

Brent crude touched $15.98 a barrel, WTI was down 51 cents, or 4.4%, at $11.06 a barrel.

ОПЕК+ Россия внимательно следят за ситуацией и имеют, в случае необходимости, все возможности для реагирования.

Monday's unprecedented meltdown in oil prices, with front-month NYMEX WTI futures diving deep into negative territory as Tuesday's expiry of the May contract neared, was the exclamation point on what many OPEC+ delegates have described as an alarming and depressing ride.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 631.56 points, or 2.67%, to 23,018.88, the S&P 500 lost 86.6 points, or 3.07%, to 2,736.56 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 297.50 points, or 3.48%, to 8,263.23.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell as much as 1% before erasing losses to last stand at 0.4% higher while Japan's Nikkei slumped 0.7%.

Podcast/Audio - Significant power price drops as a result of oversupply, congestion and decreasing demand, with renewable curtailments increasing.

39,008 GWh - total electricity generation by RusHydro Group including Boguchanskaya hydropower plant in 1Q 2020 (+19.2%)

Brent crude for was down 48 cents, or 1.9%, at $25.09 per barrel, WTI was up $38.99 in thin trade at $1.36 a barrel

NYMEX May WTI settled at minus $37.63/b, down $55.90 from Friday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI dropped 2.44% to end at 23,650.44 points, while the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.79% to 2,823.16.