The price of crude oil remains below 77 dollars per barrel, resulting in what is about to record the first week retreat for the last three weeks. The reason for uncertainly movement of quotations gives renewed fears of economic development. Yesterday the price of black gold stabilized after two days of decline, which contributed data on the growth of durable goods orders in the U.S. and the decline in initial unemployment in the country. The crude oil contracts with delivery in August rose 16 cents minimum to 76.51 dollars a barrel. This morning also lost raw materials 0.3 percent to 76.29 dollars per barrel, but the quotations are about to rise for the week of 0.6 per cent. On the London Stock Exchange this morning Brent with delivery in August lost 0.22 percent to 76.30 dollars a barrel. The price started increasing after the fiasco of the US Dollar last month and hard offence over the crude oil prices.
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The price of crude oil has taken up during today’s e-commerce in Asia and losing his series broke the previous five sessions. Energy input has made its lowest price level since the beginning of the year yesterday, and fell below $ 70 a barrel, which tempted some market participants. The price of U.S. light crude rose by 0.8 percent to 70.64 dollars a barrel during electronic trading today after the session ended yesterday with a fall of 1.53 dollars to 70.08 dollars per barrel, which is lower price level for the past five months, announced Bloomberg. Feedstock for energy fell slightly to 69.27 dollars a barrel yesterday because of the strong appreciation of the dollar caused by lower risk appetite of investors. U.S. currency rose to 1.2335 dollars per euro, noting its highest level against the euro over the past four years. Brent with delivery in July, meanwhile, a more expensive one percent to 75.85 dollars a barrel in today’s electron hours trading on the London Petroleum Exchange. Oil futures dropped by 2.83 dollars or 3.6 percent, to finish yesterday’s session at a level of 75.10 dollars a barrel.
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The price of U.S. light crude fell sharply by nearly 3 percent by the end of today’s session of the oil exchange in New York and was its lowest point since the beginning of April, sent Wall Street Journal. The news that U.S. financial regulators have raised accusations against the U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs for fraud mortgage securities, distressed investors on Wall Street and led to increased sales in the financial sector. According to financial analysts, if the financial regulatory authorities in the U.S. fined Goldman Sachs, it may cause the bank to liquidate their bets on oil price rises. The U.S. dollar rose strongly against most major currencies, excluding the Japanese yen, which lowered the price of raw materials, which are traded in dollars, including oil. U.S. light crude for delivery in May ended Friday’s session with a fall in price from U.S. $ 2.27, or 2.65 percent, to 83.24 dollars a barrel. Today’s decline in energy raw material was the strongest since the beginning of February. The price of oil futures varied in the range of 82.52 to 85.44 dollars per barrel during today’s session. Meanwhile, the International Petroleum Exchange in London Brent with delivery in June fell 1.66 dollars or 1.9 percent, to 85.93 dollars a barrel.
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The prices of light crude oil rose for the first time in five days after it fell below $ 75 a barrel for the first time since October 13. This raw material prices made attractive as an alternative investment, said Bloomberg. Today’s move offers a wide range between $ 75 and $ 81 per barrel. “For some time the markets began to get used to the volatility of prices between $ 75 and $ 80 a barrel, but when a quote is closer to the lower limit, the players react immediately, buy items and the price returns to higher levels,” commented the market situation David Moore, commodity markets analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Lightest crude oil for delivery in January rose by 46 cents, or 0.6 percent, reaching $ 74.39 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Yesterday marked the raw material to its lowest level since $ 73.93 a barrel, having dropped very quickly with $ 1.54, or 2% per cent, compared to the price at which stock exchanges closed at the end of last week. One of the reasons oil is cheaper to the statement of the President of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, who said that the U.S. economy will have problems in three directions – the labor market, tight arrangements for lending and the availability of huge quantities of stocks of fuel in reduced demand.
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