Global oil prices likely to fall to almost $70 per barrel by end of 2024: Moody's Analytics

17 Aug 2022 Evaluate

Moody's Analytics in its recent report on the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has stated that global oil prices are likely to fall to almost $70 per barrel by the end of 2024. Indicating the increase in oil prices to $120/barrel in June after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its fall to $100/barrel in August it said ‘this trend will continue; we expect crude prices to fall to almost $70 a barrel by the end of next year’. It noted that ‘for the APAC region's big oil importers, notably Singapore and Hong Kong, this will ease pinching price pressures’. According to Moody's Analytics, the impact of oil price increase has been varied for the APAC region.

As per the report, ‘for net energy importers such as Thailand, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, household energy bills have risen sharply. But for the region's key energy exporters, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia, households have been more sheltered’. But coal and natural gas prices remain stubbornly high. The APAC region's big liquified natural gas (LNG) importers, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China, are particularly vulnerable to sticky prices. Likewise, with coal prices elevated, big importers, including India, Pakistan and Vietnam, are paying more for what they need.

It said although higher commodity prices are hurting households and adding to global inflation pressures, some APAC exporters are benefiting from the price premium. Indonesia and Malaysia are the region's big oil exporters. Higher crude prices have given each an export price boost. Likewise, it added Australia is in the midst of an export boom, with elevated coal and LNG prices pushing its terms of trade to a record high. That's not only helping Australian firms tied to mining, but also government revenue through company profit tax receipts and royalties. Conversely, it also said energy importers such as South Korea and Japan have seen their import prices jump far more than their exports, resulting in a collapse in their terms of trade.

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