Oil was weak Friday despite a stronger equity market and weaker dollar, both factors that have
lifted crude prices lately.
Not exact matches
The
price of U.S. oil rose Wednesday following reports that Washington is studying whether to
lift a longstanding ban on
crude oil exports.
Battered by the plunging
price of
crude, the market is now bracing for what experts predict will be a flood of Iranian oil after the United States and the European Union
lifted economic sanctions against Iran.
When this happens, it might prompt investors to buy
crude based on lower inventories, even if only in the short term, helping to
lift prices even more.
The financial crisis in 2008, alternate sources of energy, new discoveries especially in the US and the
lifting of sanctions against Iran have all contributed to the fall in
crude prices.
* Market expects U.S. to re-impose sanctions against Iran * Plunging Venezuelan output further tightens markets * But soaring U.S.
crude production holds back marketBy Henning GloysteinSINGAPORE, April 26 (Reuters)- Oil
prices rose on Thursday,
lifted by concerns over supply disruptions in Venezuela and theMiddle East as well as by strong demand.Brent
crude oil futures were at 74.44 per barrel at0105 GMT, up 44 cents, or 0.6 percent, from their last close.U.S.
When the oil embargo was
lifted, the Arabs justified the rise in
prices of
crude oil by pointing out that inflation increased the cost of goods they had to buy from the industrial nations.
Day, after the
lifting of sanctions on Iran, which allows that nation to saturate an already oversupplied market with oil, the
price of a barrel of Brent
Crude fell to less than $ 28 per barrel.