SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK: The crash in U.S. crude prices has turned a reliable commodity less than worthless and given fresh urgency to bearish voices, who say it sounds alarm bells for global growth and are bracing for a catastrophic collapse in asset prices.
Markets are already unnerved at the specter of traders paying to get rid of May futures contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude , as storage tanks at the delivery point in Oklahoma quickly fill with unused fuel.
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