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...Brent crude prices rose sharply on Tuesday to levels just below $100 a barrel, with wholesale gas prices also up sharply....
...Pilita Clark Will Brent crude prices end the year above $65 a barrel? No....
...Brent crude was trading at about $72.20 on Friday, less than $2 above its level at the start of the week....
...Caution will prevail in the Kremlin.Neil Buckley Will there be a new financial crisis?...
...Brent crude has been holding on to levels close to $80 a barrel this week, and US West Texas Intermediate has been over $70, prompting President Donald Trump to fire off another one of his tweets urging...
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...Brent fell $2.80 on Friday to $69.78, a four-year low....
...(Bloomberg) Video of the day The Litvinenko case Leading physicist Professor Norman Dombey explains to FT eastern Europe editor Neil Buckley why he thinks the polonium used to kill Russian spy Alexander...
...(World population forecast 9bn by 2050) George Buckley, Deutsche Bank We’re expecting a slower, but more sustainable, rate of economic growth next year....
...Brent crude settled 13 cents higher at $104.47 a barrel but fell back below $104 in after-hours trade. Copper futures in New York were down 0.9 per cent....
...The recent market slides reflect a 20 per cent decline in Brent crude prices since March, which reached $100 a barrel by early June, and intensifying concerns that Greece could crash out of the eurozone,...
...So it’s not surprising that with Brent crude down 0.7 per cent at $92 a barrel, investors are jittery....
...Mr Kudrin acknowledged this year that the oil price at which the budget balances reached $95 a barrel for Urals blend – about $100 a barrel for Brent crude....
...And, second, a Conservative coalition will have a larger majority in parliament and thus be potentially more stable,” said George Buckley, chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank....
...Others say Gunvor has helped reduce the discount between Russian Urals crude and western Brent. “Timchenko is a mechanism for helping to raise the price,” Mr Temerko says. “Putin had two ways out....
...The first was the rise in the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil from US$54 in January 2007 to US$134 in July 2008....
...The MPC will not have been privy to the the September consumer price index data at Thursday’s meeting, noted Mr Buckley....
...Robert Brent, analyst at KBC Peel Hunt, said he thought Oddbins and Threshers, two more off- licence chains, were struggling. “The threat [for Majestic] remains the supermarkets,” he said....
...Robert Brent, analyst at KBC Peel Hunt, says: “Ultimately, everyone else has gone and his [Mr Hancock’s] judgment has got to be questioned. Who else is to blame?”...
...Robert Brent, analyst at KBC Peel Hunt, the broker, says that, even when it is successful, it has been a slow burn....
...Robert Brent, at Peel Hunt, says: “This is a shocker. It's in disarray. There should be more clarity as to why these people are leaving....
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