Oil Dives Over 5 Percent as US Crude Stocks Hit Record, COVID Cases Mount

Oil Dives Over 5 Percent as US Crude Stocks Hit Record, COVID Cases Mount
The sun shines through a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, on Nov. 22, 2019. Angus Mordant/Reuters
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NEW YORK—Oil prices tumbled over 5 percent, or more than $2 a barrel on June 24, after U.S. crude storage hit another record and coronavirus cases rebounded in countries like Germany and surged in heavily populated areas of the United States.

The United States had its second-largest rise in infections since the pandemic began. Mounting infections there as well as in China, Latin America and India have unnerved investors and pressured oil prices.