The price on the futures contract for West Texas crude that is due to expire Tuesday fell into negative territory — minus $37.63 a barrel.
- Catherine Ngai, Olivia Raimonde, and Alex Longley
- Bloomberg
The reason: with the pandemic bringing the economy to a standstill, there is so much unused oil sloshing around that American energy companies have run out of room to store it.
And if there’s no place to put the oil, no one wants a crude contract that is about to come due…