## Oil Low-Commotion

_IMF Blog, January 14, 2016_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: iMFdirect
- Published: January 14, 2016

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### Context and headline finding
- Brent crude oil fell below $30 a barrel yesterday for the first time since 2004.

### Referenced recent IMF blog posts and timing
- "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

### Implication signpost
- 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.

*Source: IMF iMFdirect blog post, January 14, 2016.*

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## References

- [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/)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2016/01/14/oil-low-commotion_