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Oil alert! Fears grow rising prices will kill economic recovery

03.09.09
Energy analysis: Informed City opinion has it that rising fuel costs arguably hurt companies and consumers far worse than the credit crunch... more

Exxon Mobil feels the pain as proftis drop again

30.07.09
Exxon Mobil, the largest US oil company, reported a third straight drop in profits after evaporating demand for energy pulled down prices... more

Brown and Sarkozy call for a probe into oil speculators

08.07.09
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy today demanded a new investigation into how much speculators have been responsible for wild gyrations in world oil prices over the past two years... more

Further joy as IMF is ready to raise its sights on growth

11.06.09
The International Monetary Fund is set to upgrade its forecasts for global economic growth, it emerged, further fuelling the feeling that the world is climbing out of recession ... more

Oil reaches a six-month high as the gloom lifts

20.05.09
Oil rose above $60 a barrel today on growing hopes that the worst of the global recession may be over ... more

Oil climbs to dearest for six months

20.05.09
Oil rose further above $60 a barrel on growing hopes the worst of the global recession may be over ... more

Recession woes slash forecast for oil demand

14.04.09
Oil slipped back below $50 a barrel on concerns of a further fall in demand as the recession bites... more

Oil price falls as suppliers agree not to cut output

16.03.09
The oil price plummeted well below $45 a barrel as the Opec cartel yesterday decided not to cut production... more

Israeli attack on Gaza sparks rise in price of gold and oil

29.12.08
Commodities: Oil prices leapt by more than 10% to above $40 a barrel after the Israeli assault on Gaza, with energy chiefs warning the cost of crude could be back above $100 within a year... more

Oil rockets ahead on hopes of biggest-ever Opec output cut

15.12.08
Energy: The price of oil shot up amid hopes of an Opec production cut ... more

Market report: Pain for Punch as analyst puts fair value tag at zero

11.12.08
Punch Taverns got another smack in the face, courtesy of a feisty City analyst who claimed that a fair value for the stock was zero, and that the company is heading for "zombie" status... more

Opec curb on output fails to halt crude slide

24.10.08
Saudi-led attempts to rig the oil market failed dismally as global prices of crude continued to plunge on fears of a slump in worldwide demand... more

Oil price dives after Russia’s ‘ceasefire’ in Georgia conflict

12.08.08
Price of oil fell and Russian currency soared after Moscow claimed to have ordered a halt to Georgia action... more

Oil at new highs on growing Iran disruption fears

11.07.08
Oil prices have roared to fresh highs on growing fears that supplies from Iran could be disrupted... more

Watchdog smells rats - but can't catch them

01.07.08
In his classic 1940 book Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, Fred Schwed Jr takes on the follies of Wall Street in a way never bettered since. By his telling, Wall Street is a kindergarten full of incurable romantics, children who really believe all that guff they spout even as it is being proven spectacularly wrong... more

Higher costs at the pumps are driving motorists off the roads

11.06.08
Drivers are starting to cut back on the amount of fuel they use because of the soaring cost of petrol... more

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