{"id":16297,"date":"2025-01-10T05:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/?p=16297"},"modified":"2025-01-10T05:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:12:34","slug":"oil-prices-rise-as-cold-weather-boost-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/analysis\/oil-prices-rise-as-cold-weather-boost-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Rise as Cold Weather Boost Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" data-id=\"16605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/03\/download-5-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16605\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WTI crude oil<\/strong> rose <strong>1.14% to close at $74.13<\/strong>, with an intraday high of <strong>$74.35<\/strong> and a low of <strong>$72.83<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over three weeks ending Jan. 10, WTI gained <strong>6.9%<\/strong>, and <strong>Brent crude<\/strong> climbed <strong>5.9%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>WTI crude oil rose to <strong>$74.13 per barrel<\/strong>, extending its rally for a third week. Prices briefly touched a high of <strong>$74.35<\/strong> in intraday trading, reflecting the impact of freezing temperatures in the <strong>United States<\/strong> and <strong>Europe<\/strong>, which have sharply increased heating fuel demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>U.S. <\/strong><strong>Weather<\/strong><strong> Bureau<\/strong> forecasts below-average temperatures for central and eastern regions, while Europe faces a colder-than-usual start to the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">European cities from Austria to Spain are bracing for the coldest weather in four years, putting further pressure on gas inventories as heating demand increases <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/61Dq1QEHJe\">https:\/\/t.co\/61Dq1QEHJe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1876558937236844741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These weather patterns have increased crude prices as heating oil, kerosene, and LPG demand rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Supply Concerns Add to Tight Market Conditions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The premium of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/69MD3cO46v\">front-month Brent contracts<\/a><\/strong> over six-month contracts reached its widest since August, highlighting supply tightness amid rising demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supply concerns could escalate further as <strong>President Joe Biden<\/strong> is expected to announce new sanctions targeting <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cbPHCFPfJX\">Russia&#8217;s oil industry<\/a><\/strong>, a move likely to disrupt supplies further ahead of <strong>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> inauguration on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Technical Analysis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/03\/image-11-1024x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16298\" style=\"width:1450px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Picture: Crude oil climbs to 74.12, supported by bullish sentiment, as seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/vtmarketsapp.onelink.me\/CD7D\/240525WA\" title=\"\">VT Markets app<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the chart above, we see crude recovering from an early session low of 72.83, closing at a comfortable 74.12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 15-minute chart shows moving averages (MA5, MA10, MA30) trending upward, reinforcing a positive bias. The MACD (12,26,9) remains in positive territory but exhibits a narrowing histogram, indicating that bullish momentum is moderating as the price consolidates near resistance at 74.35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dollar Strength and Oil Resilience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the dollar holding a six-week rally, crude has demonstrated impressive resistance against the historically affecting greenback. However, traders are expected to remain cautious as they await further news on upcoming U.S. Sanctions and policy rollouts as President-elect Donald Trump takes office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/trade-now\/\">Create your live VT Markets account<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.vtmarkets.com\/login\">start trading<\/a>&nbsp;now.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTI crude rises to $74.13, driven by cold weather and supply concerns; demand projected to grow by 1.6M barrels\/day in Q1. &#8211; vtmarkets.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-16297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-oil"],"acf":{"acf_article_selection_author":null},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vtmarkets.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}