Oil

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Morgan Stanley cut its 2019 oil price forecasts by more than 10 percent on Wednesday.

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Both crude price benchmarks had already gained more than 2 percent in the previous session.

There is concern that a worldwide economic slowdown will dent fuel consumption.

Record U.S. crude oil production has fuel stockpiles rising.

OPEC oil supply fell by 460,000 barrels per day (bpd) between November and December.

The slowdown in China and turmoil in stock and currency markets is making investors nervous, including in oil markets.

Gas prices have plunged in recent months – a decline that has occurred alongside a drop in the price of U.S. crude oil.

Oil prices ended 2018 lower for the first time since 2015.

Prices fell below $2 in nearly 20 percent of U.S. states.

Both oil benchmarks are down more than a third this quarter.

Oil prices fell to their lowest in almost 18 months this week.

In oil, and in markets in general, it is perception and not necessarily reality that drives prices.