Liam Denning, Columnist

Oil Investors Just Aren't Buying It

A clearer path to $60 a barrel is needed to lure money back to the sector.

April 19, 2017 at 5:03 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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