{
  "title": "Oil Low-Commotion",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, January 14, 2016",
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  "summary": "Brent crude oil fell below $30 a barrel yesterday for the first time since 2004.",
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      "heading": "Context and headline finding",
      "content": "- Brent crude oil fell below $30 a barrel yesterday for the first time since 2004."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Referenced recent IMF blog posts and timing",
      "content": "- \"Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities\" — September\n- \"New Era of Oil\" (focused on Sovereign Wealth Funds) — October\n- \"The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon\" — December"
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    {
      "heading": "Implication signpost",
      "content": "- The page frames commodity prices as “a hot topic that impact everyone, everywhere, one way or another” and signals further analysis on commodities to come in 2016.\n\nSource: IMF iMFdirect blog post, January 14, 2016.\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities\n- Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil\n- The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2016/01/14/oil-low-commotion"
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    "Authors: iMFdirect",
    "Published: January 14, 2016",
    "Brent crude oil fell below $30 a barrel yesterday for the first time since 2004.",
    "\"Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities\" — September",
    "\"New Era of Oil\" (focused on Sovereign Wealth Funds) — October",
    "\"The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon\" — December",
    "The page frames commodity prices as “a hot topic that impact everyone, everywhere, one way or another” and signals further analysis on commodities to come in 2016.",
    "[Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/09/14/metals-and-oil-a-tale-of-two-commodities/)",
    "[Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/10/26/sovereign-wealth-funds-in-the-new-era-of-oil/)",
    "[The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/12/02/the-price-of-oil-and-the-price-of-carbon/)"
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