"With demand vanishing across all key oil consuming regions, benchmark crude oil prices continue to plummet," said Merrill Lynch.

美林表示：“随着主要石油消费地区需求的不断减少，原油基准价格持续下跌。”

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Supply disruptions in the North Sea and the absence of Libyan crude exports are providing solid support to the benchmark, which is used to price more than half of the world's oil.

北海的供应中断、利比亚原油出口的停止都有力地支撑着石油的基准价，而这个基准价是用来为全世界过半数的石油定价的。

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On November 1st the NYMEX opened an open-outcry pit in Dublin to handle Brent crude futures, the benchmark contract for pricing two-thirds of the world's oil.

11月1日，纽约商品交易所在都柏林的期货交易所开张，并以公开叫价的方式交易作为世界三分之二原油的定价基准的布伦特原油期货。

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The price spread between Brent crude oil, the European benchmark and West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, widened sharply because of the loss of Libyan crude oil production.

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"We need a better global benchmark for crude oil than the Brent marker, " said Torbjorn Kjus, oil market analyst at DnB NOR.

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Indeed, Brent has gained in dominance in recent years as investors have moved away from West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. crude oil benchmark.

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