• WTI remains sidelined inside a four-day-old trading range, retreats of late.
• Fears emanating from OPEC supply cuts, geopolitical fears underpin Oil price strength.
• US Dollar traces recently firmer odds of Fed’s 0.25% rate hike in May after upbeat US NFP.
• Risk catalysts, US inflation and Fed Minutes eyed for clear directions.

WTI crude oil buyers struggle to keep the reins around $80.70 during early Monday as risk-aversion joins hawkish Fed bets to underpin the US Dollar rebound. However, challenges to Oil supplies, mainly emanating from China and OPEC , seem to keep the black gold buyers hopeful.

US Dollar Index (DXY) snaps a four-day downtrend around 102.25 even as the US Treasury bond yields fail to recover amid recession woes. That said, the US 10-year and two-year Treasury bond yields remain pressured near 3.37% and 3.95% respectively. In doing so, the benchmark bond coupons extend the previous day’s losses and portray the market’s rush toward the risk-safety amid economic slowdown fears.