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Monday, 19 April 2010

Crude Oil continued to fall when dollar strengthened....

According to Bloomberg, On April 19, in global demand, Crude Oil fell for a third day on speculation.

For 10 weeks, after reaching 2.7%, Crude Oil extended losses. The speculation and currency movements have driven the prices of Crude Future. According to Abdullah, before its October meeting, OPEC is not necessary to review output. The appeal of commodities reduced due to the value of dollar in currency market; the dollar strengthened against the euro in currency market.

For May delivery, in electronic trading on the NY Mercantile Exchange Crude Oil fell $1.58, or 1.9%, to $81.66 a barrel. The prices of Crude Oil have reached the highest since October 2008 after being at $87.09 on April 6; and now the prices have declined in eight of the nine trading days.

In May, the contract lost $2.27 on April 16 to $83.24 a barrel; this is the biggest drop since February 5.

In June, Brent Crude Oil settlement fell $1.36, or 1.6%, to $84.63 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.

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Monday, 12 April 2010

Crude Oil Future: Go Up Again in the Markets

According to Bloom-berg, when the dollar fell, for the first time, Crude Oil continued to go up in four days. Also, due to the surging demand, China had to increase Crude Oil imports.

As in more than three weeks, the dollar slipped to its lowest level and Crude Oil continued to advance; this would be the appeal of commodities as an alternative investment. In March, 29% more Crude Oil was imported into China, based on customs data released April 10.

According to Daily-futures, "June natural gas closed up 16.3 cents at $4.169 in spite of forecasts for warmer U.S. weather ahead".

For May delivery, in electronic trading on the NY Mercantile Exchange, Crude Oil continued to rise as much as 79 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $85.71 a barrel. Base on Singapore time, the contract was at $85.38 at 3:15 p.m. In 2010, Futures Crude Oil have gained more than 7 percent unexpectedly.
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Thursday, 1 April 2010

Crude Future: Markets & Information

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According to Daily-futures, last week the supplies of Crude Oil were up 2.9 million barrels to 354.2 million barrels. The supplies of gasoline were up 300,000 barrels and the heating oil supplies were up 1.0 million barrels. In June Crude Oil closed up $1.41 at $84.18, the highest close in eleven weeks. Learn more about Crude Future...

According to Boomberg, the supplies of Crude Oil increased from 2.93 million barrels to 354.2 million in the week ended March 29. Inventories were forecast to climb by 2.5 million barrels, according to the median of 16 analyst estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. Last week, Gasoline stockpiles rose 313,000 barrels to 224.9 million. Forecast was a 1.85-million-barrel increase in Crude Oil Markets.

According to DOE, last week, refinery use moved up from 81.1% to 82.6% of capacity. Over the past four weeks, the demand of gasoline was up 1.5% from a year ago and distillate demand was down 1.0% from a year ago. The prices of Commodity Crude Oil can be impacted by the prices of Index Metals in Precious Metals Markets....Learn more about Trading Metals through Futures Wiki...The contracts and advices about trading Commodities...

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Prices of Crude Oil: Crude Future

Prices of Crude Oil ticked higher over the next half decade leading up to the Iranian Revolution. The Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was over thrown and essentially replaced by Ayatollah Khomeini at the end of 1979. The year following this executive changed, included the Iranian Hostage Crisis and concluded with the commencement of the Iran-Iraq war. Over that time, the crude market price increased by 2.5x that was seen at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution. Over all, the Oil Prices rose approximately 1,200% in the 8 years from 1973-1981. That is why we can conclude that in the history of the Crude Future this rally was the result of the two greatest intermediate term price rallies.

Crude Future: Markets & Prices

Having a look at reviewing record of Crude Oil Price, you do not have to waste your time looking to far back into history in order to find the greatest nominal price move in history. There was a change in the Prices of Crude Oil; The Prices of Crude Oil rally actually stemmed from the last time Crude Future traded under $10/barrel. For over the next nine years, the Price of Oil fluctuated over 1,400% before topping out at $145/barrel in 2008. During the 18 months from January 2007 to July of 2008, the most impressive stage or phase of this rally took place. “The Crude Oil Market hit an intraday high of $147.27 and a closing high of $145.29 on July 11 and July 3 respectively; these broke and currently hold record intraday and closing figures. The rally from approximately $50/barrel in Jan. 2007 to the closing highs in July equated to 190% rally. One of the fundamentals that influenced the timing of this rally was a 1.7 million barrel per day two phase production cut by OPEC. The cuts were in Nov. 2006 (1.2 mb/day cut) and Feb. 2007 (500 tb/day cut). In looking back at other noteworthy price runs, OPEC member nations seem to have a driving influence on the volatility.”

The Crude Oil Market rally that climaxed in 2008 was an amazing occurrence that will be talked about for some time to come, but the move is relative in comparison to other historic rallies on a percentage basis. These other pricing events went down within the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. In fact, prior to 1973, the Price of Crude Oil pretty much was below $5/barrel except during a rally in the 1860s. In October of 1973, OPEC implemented and put an oil embargo on the U.S. and other European nations who helped Israeli with supply and military support during the Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli conflict. These supplies were important and necessary for Israel to hold off the Egyptian and Syrian offensives. In March of 1974, the embargo was repealed, but not until Prices of Oil had gone through the greatest percentage move to this date. In that 5 month period, Oil Prices quadrupled from $3/barrel to $12/barrel.

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Crude Oil Trades Near $81 After Rising on Economic Optimism

According to Bloomberg, "Crude Oil traded near $81 a barrel after rising yesterday as reports showed improvement in the U.S. job market and refineries operated at the highest level since October in the world’s biggest energy consumer."

Oil climbed to a seven-week high yesterday as service industries in the U.S. accelerated in February more than anticipated, indicating the economic expansion may soon create jobs following the worst employment slump in the post-World War II era. Inventories of crude oil climbed 4.03 million barrels and refinery utilization increased 0.7 percentage point in the U.S. last week, according to the Energy Department.

Crude Future for April delivery traded at $80.83 a barrel, down 4 cents, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 8:42 a.m. Singapore time. Yesterday, the contract increased $1.19, or 1.5 percent, to $80.87, the highest settlement since Jan. 11.

Oil also advanced as the dollar weakened, increasing the investment appeal of commodities. The currency rose after Greece approved an additional 4.8 billion euros ($6.6 billion) of deficit cuts. The dollar traded at $1.3690 per euro at 11:18 a.m. Sydney time, from $1.3697 yesterday...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Oil Tops $75 on Optimism About US Recovery

In recent, Oil Prices began to change rapidly; the Prices of Oil is fluctuating in Crude Future.
Crude Oil Last: 74.64 Go up: 0.22 %Change:+0.3%
Brent Crude Last: 73.29 Go up: 0.18 %change:+0.23%

Crude oil for March delivery climbed as much as $1.01, or 1.4 percent, to $75.44 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was at $74.70 at 1:50 p.m. Singapore time. Yesterday, the contract rose 2.1 percent to settle at $74.43, the biggest one-day increase since Jan. 4.

Brent crude oil for March settlement rose as much as $1.41, or 1.9 percent, to $74.52 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. It was at $73.36 at 1:51 p.m. Singapore time. Yesterday, the contract climbed 2.3 percent, the most since Jan. 4, to settle at $73.11.

Oil rose for a second day on Tuesday and accelerated gains after reaching $75 on optimism that the U.S. economy has turned the corner following strong manufacturing data for January.

U.S. crude for March delivery [CLC1 74.69 0.26 (+0.35%)] reached $75.44 a barrel, the highest
intraday price since Jan. 22, after prices touched $75, triggering automatic buy
orders.

It was trading up 53 cents at $74.95 at 0245 GMT, having rebounded by almost $3 from last week's 2010 lows.

London ICE Brent [LCOC1 73.35 0.24 (+0.33%)] gained 53 cents to $73.64.

"People are quite nervous around $75," said Tetsu Emori, a fund manager at Tokyo-based Astmax Co Ltd.


"There was short-covering after prices broke above that level. In the very short term, the market has been oversold, so some people see it as a good time to buy on dips below the $75-$80 range." ..."Demand for oil isn't really improving," Emori said. "We don't see any sign of real recovery. There is a huge amount of inventories in the physical markets."...
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