Silver prices rose on Tuesday, recouping yesterday’s losses that were more than 5%, as the US dollar fell against most currencies. The US administration announced that it would start distributing doses of two Covid-19 vaccines to some citizens in attempts to contain the spreading disease.

The US dollar index plunged to its lowest in more than two and a half years overnight.

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Markets are closely focusing the latest updates regarding the coronavirus crisis, keeping in mind that the Trump administration intends to distribute two Covid-19 vaccines to US citizens later this month.

Decline in U.S. manufacturing activity in the month of November, and hopes that there will be a compromise in the U.S. Senate over a coronavirus relief proposal contributed to gold’s rise.

Crude oil prices drifted lower and the most active crude futures contract dropped to a one-week closing low on Tuesday, weighed down by the decision of OPEC and its allies to delay a discussion on output cuts by a couple of days.

The OPEC and its allies Russia and other major producers, who were originally set to take a call on extending output cuts beyond January, have now decided to postpone talks to Thursday.

The oil market fundamentals remain weak and point to a significant oversupply during the early point of the coming year, due to continued increase in coronavirus cases in several regions. Resumption of production in Libya from September is also contributing to fears of oversupply in the market.

Copper futures climbed to their highest level more than seven years on Tuesday, buoyed by signs of growing demand for the industrial metal, with global supplies expected to fall short of demand this year despite a dip in copper consumption tied to the pandemic.

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With space to store oil scarce, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for May delivery ended trading at -$37.63 a barrel ahead of Tuesday’s close for futures contracts — when traders who buy and sell the commodity for profit would have had to take physical possession of it.

“It’s a contract for something that nobody wants to buy,” said Matt Smith of ClipperData.

The remarkable decline comes as the petroleum industry emerges as one of the corners of the global economy made most vulnerable by government shutdowns to limit the spread of coronavirus.

The commodity has been further weakened by a battle for market share that raged much of the spring between Saudi Arabia and Russia.

A deal announced last week between OPEC and its peers to cut production by about 10 million barrels per-day from May appears not to have been enough, while the closely-monitored storage capacity at Cushing, Oklahoma was almost full as of Monday morning.

“It’s a dump at all cost as no one… wants delivery of oil, with Cushing storage facilities filling by the minute,” AxiCorp’s Stephen Innes said.

“It hasn’t taken long for the market to recognize that the OPEC+ deal will not, in its present form, be enough to balance oil markets.”

Still, Smith noted that Monday’s negative price only affects oil deliveries due Tuesday.

US oil futures for delivery in May also fell sharply, by 18 percent, but finished at $20.43 per barrel.

The European benchmark contract, London Brent North Sea oil for June delivery, ended down nine percent at $25.57 per barrel.

“This moment is of course historical and could not better illustrate the price-utopia that the market has been in since March, when the full scale of the oversupply problem started to become evident but the market remained oblivious,” said Rystad Energy’s Oil Markets Analyst Louise Dickson.

“Since then traders have sent prices up and down on speculation, hopes, tweets and wishful thinking. But now reality is sinking in.”

The cratering of the oil market prompted more selling on Wall Street, where all three indices were decisively negative in the final hour of trading.

Most European markets ended the day higher as governments start to consider how and when to ease the lockdowns that have crippled the global economy.

Italy, Spain, France and Britain reported drops in daily death tolls and slowing infection rates, while Germany began allowing some shops to reopen and Norway restarted nurseries

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