Global equity markets are off to a bad start to 2016 largely because oil's dramatic fall is confusing investors, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) President and COO Gary Cohn said Thursday.
"What
I think the confusing part of the oil market is, everyone's relating
the sell-off in oil to be an economic slowdown," Cohn told CNBC's " Squawk Box "
at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "I don't believe the
sell-off in oil is reflective of an economic slowdown."
U.S. oil prices have dropped over 20 percent in 2016, including their worst settlement since May 2003 on Wednesday.
"We're not seeing a demand slowdown in oil," Cohn said. "What we're
seeing is a massive oversupply of oil. So we're now having to price oil
at such a level that we can actually price in all available on-land
storage, and then we'll move to floating storage."
By: Fred Imbert (CNBC).
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