West TX Oil Drops Below $77 after Saudis Cut Prices

U.S. crude oil pared some of its earlier losses after diving more than 3 percent on Tuesday to a more than three-year low, as Saudi Arabia’s sharp cut in export prices to the United States looked likely to deepen a global supply glut that has already driven prices down 30 percent since June.

On Monday, Saudi Arabia surprised the market by raising prices for Asia and Europe but cutting prices for U.S. customers. Oil slid as much as $2 a barrel in late trade, and the sell-off continued Tuesday, triggering technical sell-stops.

“The Saudis have basically declared war on the U.S. oil producers,” said Phil Flynn at Price Futures Group. “I think they believe that the only way they’re going to survive in the long term is to break the market in the short term.”

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