US oil prices crashed below $5 a barrel on Monday, hitting the lowest level since the contract launched in 1983, as the collapse in demand triggered by the coronavirus pandemic leaves the world awash with crude that it is struggling to store.
West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, lost 74 per ce
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