{"id":210283,"date":"2026-02-11T15:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210283"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:03:38","slug":"why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=210283","title":{"rendered":"Why China Is Driving Short-Term Oil Prices But OPEC Still Holds the Lever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the past decade, oil markets have treated decisions by OPEC as the primary signal for price direction. That hierarchy is being tested, but not overturned. What has changed is where traders look for short-term cues. Increasingly, those cues are coming from China, not because Beijing controls supply&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Crude-Oil\/Why-China-Is-Driving-Short-Term-Oil-Prices-But-OPEC-Still-Holds-the-Lever.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the past decade, oil markets have treated decisions by OPEC as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210283-why-china-is-driving-short-term-oil-prices-but-opec-still-holds-the-lever-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}