Oil collapse pushing inflation rate down

26 April 2020 - 00:08 By HILARY JOFFE

If you're not in the oil industry you may never have heard of Cushing, Oklahoma, population 7,000. The US town is the world's largest oil storage-tank farm, where multiple pipelines meet. This week it was at the centre of a historic moment when the oil price went negative...

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