Oil falls to $44.00 a barrel, Fed eyed

FXStreet (Córdoba) - Oil faced some selling pressure and dropped to the $44 area as worries about China and mixed expectations ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting weighed on commodities.

Oil prices even shrugged off a report from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) which showed the cartel upwardly revised its world oil demand outlook for 2015.

Crude oil fell to a 4-day low sub-$44.00 a barrell, although it managed to recover slightly afterward. The barrel traded at $44.26 a barrel, down 1.2% on the day.

Both WTI and Brent crude futures lost around 3% last week amid China woes and lingering concerns over a global supply glut.

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