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Will oil prices rise in 2016?

Geoff Riley

27th December 2015

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The collapse in world oil prices since the summer of 2014 has been one of the big economic stories of the last eighteen months.The current low price is not high enough to stimulate the investment needed to bring known oil reserves to the ground.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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