Constantin Gurdgiev: Oil’s bucking bull
My best guess is that prices will stay north of $50 a barrel this year - but in this climate, nothing is certain
The short-term oil price fluctuations of recent weeks are a masterclass in what risk research analysts call a Vuca environment: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.
Oil prices are being driven simultaneously by the uncertain and complex long-run fundamentals of supply and demand, and short-term shocks which are highly volatile and ambiguous in their net impacts. In simple terms, this means that predicting the future path of oil prices is a perilous undertaking.
