Last Friday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak announced that he would voluntarily cut output by 500,000 barrels per day in March. As soon as the news came out, oil prices rose by more than 2 dollars. In his speech, Novak stated that he would not sell oil to countries that directly or indirectly implement the principle of 'price ceiling', and set a 'price ceiling' on the sales of Russian oil and petroleum products. The mechanism is to intervene in market relations and is a continuation of the collective destructive energy policies of Western countries. Production cuts will help restore market relations. At the same time, U.S. consumer prices rose in December, instead of falling as previously estimated, and the data for the previous two months were also revised upwards, which increased the possibility of subsequent interest rate hikes, and Powell pointed out in a statement on Tuesday: If we continue to see things like, for example, a strong labor market report, or a higher inflation report, then we may have to raise rates further down the road, and the US dollar index is also strengthening accordingly. $Light Crude Oil - main 2305(CLmain)$
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