The price of oil dropped to its lowest level for the past six months. Reason for this became news about Dubai’s plans to restructure its public investment fund. Currently announced that the Fund suspended all payments on its obligations for a period of six months, and rumors say it could extend to bankruptcy. This is a strong negative impact on the stock exchanges in Europe, which registered a sharp drop yesterday. The reason is that some analysis show that European banks had exposure of about $ 40 billion to the fund. Learn more about the fund, which collapsed yesterday exchanges in Asia and Europe. All this reflect negatively on the price of oil. Black gold moved with a fall of 3.4 percent to 75.29 dollars per barrel last night, which is the lowest level to date of 15 October. So oil is going to record weekly retreat from 1,9 per cent. Yesterday the New York Stock Exchange remained closed for Thanksgiving. Today, even the stock exchange session will be shortened, as trade will be up to about 8 hours CET. Then you’ll end today’s session of the stock exchange in the United States.
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