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...Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, rose as much as 4.3 per cent to $80.75 a barrel, the highest level so far in 2024, before easing slightly....
...Oil prices rose on Thursday, with Brent crude up almost 2 per cent on the day at $78 a barrel....
...Oil prices were little changed on Friday, with the international benchmark Brent crude up 0.3 per cent at $76.84 a barrel....
...Brent crude settled at just less than $80 a barrel on Friday, down more than a third since last year....
...The price cap has yet to have a financial impact on the Kremlin, as its flagship Urals blend, which has sold at a discount to Brent crude since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February,...
...The price for Russia’s main export-grade Urals oil has fallen to a discount of $30 to $40 a barrel below benchmark international crudes such as Brent....
...Matthew Wright, an analyst at Kpler, said: “In the first week after the price cap, things edged down a bit and they look quite subdued in the second....
...“Our hypothesis is these were vessels and cargoes fixed weeks ago,” said Matthew Wright, senior freight analyst at Kpler....
...Letter in response to this article: How sanctions can hit the Kremlin’s oil economy / From Andrew Wright, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, UK...
...A man, Christopher Killick, 40, from Brent, London, was last year convicted of taking a video of her naked in the hotel without her consent but insisted they had consensual sex....
...In energy markets, Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose above $80 a barrel for the first time in three years....
...Richard Kozul-Wright, Unctad’s director of development strategies, says advanced economies should see this not as a humanitarian gesture but as an act of self-insurance....
...He clearly thinks it would be easier to do that without Bolton so he’s out,” said Tom Wright of the Brookings Institution....
...The attack sent oil prices sharply higher, with Brent crude trading near its highest levels of the month. The international benchmark was up 4.5 per cent at $64.62 a barrel....
...Traditionally, “there is not enough to sell” in Puerto Escondido, says Brent May, a broker with the Huatulco-based Bayside Real Estate....
...Market reaction on Monday reflected that view, with Brent crude dropping about 2 per cent to below $74 a barrel, reversing much of its rise on Friday....
...But it has said Manchester, Plymouth, Hounslow, Portsmouth, Barnet and Brent all have buildings that failed tests, as well as Camden. It remains possible that some buildings will pass the inspections....
...Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker ran through the history of the oil industry in Texas, telling a familiar tale but with a few nice colourful details....
...Now, the mainstreamers control the inter-agency process,” said Mr Wright. “However, the nationalists have not gone away....
...“[This] goes some way toward righting the failures and greed that we saw during the entire BHS saga,” said Iain Wright, who co-chaired a parliamentary inquiry....
...“That looks suspiciously like a Newcastle United tie,” remarked the committee chair Iain Wright chirpily. It was the worst attempt to break the ice since Ernest Shackleton....
...GMC is one of the most obvious beneficiaries of a series of changes across transport markets that have followed the sharp fall in the price of oil from a peak of $112 a barrel of Brent crude in June 2014...
...After a brief recovery this spring, the oil price decline resumed in July, with Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, posting its biggest monthly fall since December....
...Robert Wright takes a ride on one....
...Robert Wright tells the tale of the 10-year-old cargo dispute that prompted the Iranian military to seize a vessel owned by Oaktree Capital....
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