Crude oil falls 2% in futures trade amid weak global cues

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 Crude lipid  prices dropped 2% to ₹9,061 per tube  successful  futures commercialized   connected  Thursday (June 4, 2026).

 Crude lipid prices dropped 2% to ₹9,061 per tube successful futures commercialized connected Thursday (June 4, 2026). | Photo Credit: AFP

Crude lipid prices dropped 2% to ₹9,061 per tube successful futures commercialized connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) amid anemic trends successful the planetary markets.

On the Multi Commodity Exchange, the most-traded June declaration declined ₹179, oregon 1.94%, to ₹9,061 per tube successful a concern turnover of 12,444 lots, snapping a three-day rally.

Crude lipid prices eased successful the home futures marketplace aft snapping 3 sessions of gains, aft Israel and Lebanon agreed to a conditional ceasefire, brokerage steadfast Kotak Neo said.

In the planetary markets, Brent lipid futures for August transportation fell 0.61% to $97.21 per barrel, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude slipped 0.57% to $95.47 per barrel.

The diminution came aft a conditional ceasefire statement betwixt Israel and Lebanon, which revived hopes for advancement successful negotiations to resoluteness the Iran struggle and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Kotak Neo said.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the subject volition proceed its crushed operations successful confederate Lebanon, hours aft Tel Aviv and Beirut agreed to instrumentality a U.S.-backed ceasefire to extremity hostilities.

Market participants besides kept a adjacent ticker connected continued risks astir the Strait of Hormuz, which serves arsenic the cardinal transit way for astir one-fifth of planetary crude trade, it added.

Published - June 04, 2026 05:44 p.m. IST

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