Posts Tagged ‘
Oil Demand ’
Sep 28th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil traded around $66 a barrel on Monday, steadying after an earlier decline which extended last week’s 8.4 percent slide, as the U.S. dollar lost ground and stock markets moved higher.
Tags: commodities prices, Crude Oil Inventories, European Stocks, Oil Demand, Oil Prices, Stock Markets
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Sep 21st, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil prices fell by almost 3.5 percent towards $69 a barrel on Monday as further signs of weak fuel demand raised expectations that prices may have raced ahead of the nascent economic recovery.
Tags: Global Economic Crisis, IEA, Oil Demand
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Sep 11th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
U.S. crude oil fell over 3 percent to below $70 a barrel on Friday as U.S. equities struggled for traction and raised fears about the economy and a recovery in energy demand.
Tags: Crude Prices, Global Economy, International Energy Agency, Oil Demand
Posted in Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy |
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Jul 31st, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil fell below $66 on Friday, in line with broad falls on global markets after data showing the U.S. economy contracted and consumer spending had declined, with knock-on effects for fuel demand.
Tags: Bnp Paribas, consumer spending, Fuel Sales, Oil Demand
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Jul 7th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil prices fell more than 1 percent to $63 a barrel today, Tuesday, as growing uncertainty over an economic recovery spurred investor risk aversion. A member of U.S. President Barack Obama’s economic advisory panel said the world’s top oil consumer should plan to possibly provide a second round of stimulus funds to prop up the economy, implying that recovery is still far off.
Tags: Barack Obama, Commodity Markets, Crude Futures, Crude Prices, Economic Recovery, EIA, Global Economic Crisis, London Brent Crude, Oil Demand, Risk Aversion, U S Energy
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Jun 30th, 2009 |
By Jim Stanton |
Category: Featured, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
When oil prices moved to over $30 a barrel in the mid 1980s, it was considered a significant event. It also signaled the birth of small ethanol companies in the Midwest. Many of them managed to hang around long enough to get a second wind when Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War pushed oil prices past $40.
Tags: alternative energies, Alternative Energy Solutions, Crude Oil Prices, Energy Investments, Energy Market, Exxon Mobil, Global Downturn, Global Economy, Invasion Of Kuwait, Jim Stanton, Oil Demand, PBW, Rising Oil Prices, XOM
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Jun 29th, 2009 |
By Laura Cadden |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil rose to $70 a barrel on Monday after Nigeria’s main militant group said it attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil platform, outweighing a fairly bearish report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Tags: Global Recession, IEA, London Brent Crude, MEND, Niger Delta, Oil Demand, Opec, Shell Oil, Us Consumer Confidence, Western Niger Delta
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Jun 22nd, 2009 |
By Jim Stanton |
Category: Featured, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
When oil prices moved over $30 a barrel in the mid 1980s, it was considered a significant event. It also signaled the birth of small ethanol companies in the Midwest. Many of them managed to hang around long enough to get a second wind when Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War pushed oil prices pushed past $40.
Tags: alternative energies, Crude Oil Prices, Global Downturn, Global Economy, Jim Stanton, Kuwait invasion, Oil Demand, PBW, PEIX, XOM
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Jun 22nd, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Financial News, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil dropped more than 2 percent to below $68 a barrel on Monday as a stronger dollar and weaker European equities outweighed attacks on the oil industry in top African exporter Nigeria.
Tags: Brent Crude, Energy Industry, European Equities, Global Economy, Oil Demand, Oil Industry, Stock Markets
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Jun 15th, 2009 |
By Lee Lowell |
Category: Featured, Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Whether it’s heading up or down, the oil market usually asserts itself as the leader of the commodities world. Having plunged from levels around $130 per barrel this time last year all the way down to the $40s, the market has spent the last couple of months striking to the upside again.
Tags: Crude Oil Futures, etf, Futures Options, GLD, hedge funds, Lee Lowell, Oil Demand, Oil Prices, Opec, SLV, UNG, USO
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