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Oil prices take biggest plunge in decades amid coronavirus uncertainty, price war fears | CBC News

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Mar 9, 2020
Oil prices take biggest plunge in decades amid coronavirus uncertainty, price war fears | CBC News

Oil prices dramatically dropped as markets opened on Sunday, down more than 25 per cent after a 10 per cent drop on Friday.

Oil prices collapsed Sunday as markets opened amid global price uncertainty. (Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Oil prices dramatically dropped as markets opened in Asia on Monday, down more than 25 per cent after a 10 per cent drop on Friday.

West Texas Intermediate crude fell $9 US to $32 and international benchmark Brent fell $11 to $34.

It was the largest single-day drop since 1991.

OPEC and key ally Russia failed to agree Friday on a cut to oil production that would have contained the plunge in the price of c

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