September WTI crude futures fell 0.13% to $ 54.86 a barrel.
Futures for Brent crude for October delivery fell 0.19% to $ 58.46 a barrel.
Sergei Silvestrov, formerly Honored Economist of Russia, full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN), in an interview with the NSN, assessed the IMF report, according to which the fall in oil prices from 2014 to 2018 made a larger (relative to the forecasts) contribution to the decrease in the growth rate of the Russian economy than sanctions.