Market Overview: March 12, 2010
The oil market welcomes any news of an increase in energy demand and this week, the Chinese delivered this much-needed boost to the market, and helping to maintain the strength we’ve seen in the oil price. This has been the
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Market Overview: March 05, 2010
The oil price is maintaining a healthy run, managing to stay around US$80 for the past 2 weeks. Oil producers will be hoping this trend will continue as they prepare for OPEC’s first meeting of 2010. In early trading on Friday,
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Market Overview: February 26, 2010
The uncertainty of the global economy continued to weigh on the oil market this week. The dollar gained little strength and the Eurozone stayed stagnant. Crude stocks continue to be high and with little real news to move the
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Market Overview: February 19, 2010
The oil price held firmly in the high seventies as the focus was on the commodities all week. Supply is still at an all time high, demand has not improved but the US surprised the market by hiking the discount rate, signalling
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Market Overview: February 12, 2010
There’s been no great improvement in oil demand this week as stockpiles continue to build and global economic news remains sluggish. Cold weather in the US, gains on the stock market and a weaker dollar all helped keep the oil
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