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Oil Market Summary for 05/17/2010 to 05/21/2010 Crude oil prices ended just above $70 a barrel on Friday after dipping below that threshold earlier in the week. The benchmark June contract for West Texas Intermediate settled at $68.01 before it expired on Thursday, after falling below $65 a barrel in intraday trading. The decline from […]

The plunge in oil prices in the wake of the euro crisis has OPEC worried. Qatar oil minister Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah emerged as an unofficial spokesman for the oil cartel over the weekend in a series of news agency reports from the Gulf that signaled the group’s concern. On Monday, as oil futures […]

Crude oil prices plunged nearly 4% on Friday and were off almost 20% from their 18-month high less than two weeks ago, as the euro continued to lose ground against the dollar and U.S. oil inventories continued to build. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract settled at $71.61 a barrel on Friday, down $2.79 on […]

Oil Market Summary for: 03/05/2010 to 07/05/2010 In a week of market turmoil resulting from Greece’s fiscal crisis, oil went from an intraday high above $87 on Monday – its highest point in more than a year and a half – to plunge briefly below $75 on Friday. The Greek crisis, exacerbated by a still-unexplained […]

Oil Market Summary for: 04/26/2010 to 04/30/2010 Stubbornly high crude oil inventories continued to stymie bulls through the middle of the week, but the market seized on positive economic data to push prices higher toward the end of the week. The oil spill from a collapsed rig off the Gulf coast may also have played […]

Oil Market Summary for 04/12/2010 to 04/16/2010 Oil prices plunged on Friday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman Sachs with fraud in its marketing of certain subprime mortgage securities, amid a general sell-off in financial and commodity markets. The allegations against one of the biggest market makers in virtually every markets dampened […]

Oil Market Summary for 04/05/2010 to 04/09/2010 Crude oil prices ended the week virtually unchanged from a week ago as optimism about demand warred with trepidation about historically high inventories in both crude oil and gasoline. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract settled at $84.92 a barrel on Friday, only 5 cents ahead of the […]

Crude oil prices still found stubborn resistance above the $80-a-barrel level amid concerns about demand while natural gas continued its decline, to below $4 per million British thermal units, as burgeoning supply from unconventional sources depressed prices. The natural gas Henry Hub benchmark futures settled Friday at a nearly six-month low of $3.87, down 31% […]

Oil Market Summary for 03/15/2010 to 03/19/2010 Crude oil futures kept falling back from highs even though speculative funds increased their bets that prices are headed higher. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract ended the week at $80.68 a barrel, after nearing $83 earlier in the week, compared to $81.24 a week ago. Saudi Arabia’s […]