据油价网8月3日消息：美国西德克萨斯中质油(WTI)价格在美国等世界主要经济体因新冠肺炎疫情的扩散而连续第二天下跌，当天凌晨跌破每桶70美元。
截至美国东部时间上午10:10，WTI原油下跌2.81%，跌至69.35美元，布伦特原油价格下跌2.21%，跌至71.25美元。
周一，随着全球德尔塔变种病例持续攀升，油价在8月开始下跌，跌幅超过3%。
周二，市场试图摆脱周一的抛售，但在短暂反弹后，油价再次下跌。
亚洲原油期货周二早间一度企稳，周一跌幅超过3%，引发一些逢低买盘，但微弱的买盘欲望很快耗尽。Vanda Insights在周二早间的一份报告中表示:“对德尔塔变种导致的全球新冠肺炎疫情持续飙升的担忧，再次主导市场情绪。”
Vanda Insights表示：“美国这个被认为以自己的方式控制了疫情的世界最大经济体，正面临着由传染性更强的德尔塔病毒引发病例激增的威胁。”
周二，随着传染性更强的变种病毒蔓延到城市，在美国，一位医学教授表示，德尔塔变种病毒“改变了游戏规则。”
盛宝银行周二在一份日报中表示:“鉴于德尔塔冠状病毒变体的继续传播，投资者再次被迫衡量消费风险。”
该行策略师补充称:“随着欧佩克+目前增产，市场再次担心需求增长是否会遵循国际能源署和欧佩克的预期上行轨迹。”。
冯娟 摘译自 油价网
原文如下：
WTI Falls Below $70 align="justify"> The U.S. benchmark, WTI Crude, slumped below $70 per barrel early align="justify"> As of 10:10 a.m. EDT, WTI Crude was down to $69.35, down 2.81% align="justify"> Oil prices started August with a loss align="justify"> The market tried to shake off Monday’s sell-off align="justify"> “Crude futures briefly steadied early Tuesday in Asia amid some bargain-hunting prompted by Monday’s slump of more than 3%, but the meagre buying appetite was quickly exhausted. Worries over a continuing global surge of Covid led by the Delta variant crimping oil demand are align="justify"> “The US and China, world’s top two economies that were regarded as having brought Covid under control in their own ways, are confronting a threatening surge in cases led by the more contagious Delta strain,” according to Vanda Insights.
On Tuesday, in the U.S., a professor of medicine said that the Delta variant “has changed the game.”
“Investors have align="justify"> “With OPEC+ currently increasing production, the market once again fret whether demand growth will follow the expected upward trajectory forecast by the IEA and OPEC,” the bank’s strategists added.
