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...Global oil benchmark Brent crude fell 0.9 per cent to $82.45 a barrel after adding 0.2 per cent last week....
...Brent crude was trading at $111 a barrel on Thursday....
...The release quoted Brent Wisner, Baum Hedlund’s celebrity attorney....
...Even when Brent crude slumped to $27.67 a barrel at the time of the oil price collapse of 2014-15, management held its nerve and shareholders reaped the benefits....
...Historically, significant widening in the Brent-WTI spread has benefited ICE Brent volumes over CME....
...This dislocation could be further pronounced if visibility of the bottom on oil demand emerges and $20 Brent proves to be a floor....
...The broker estimated that, at current levels, airlines are priced for the euro area composite PMI of 48.8 (a six-year low) to fall to 46 or for Brent crude to jump to $95 a barrel....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...Brent’s at $28 a barrel, down 4 per cent, and sterling’s off about 1 per cent at $1.25....
...Brent, the global benchmark, slid 1.28 per cent on news that Opec might ramp up production to ease potential supply constraints from Iran and Venezuela, which are both threatened by US sanctions....
...Brent crude dropped 2.5 per cent to $74.50 a barrel while West Texas intermediate slipped 2.7 per cent to $66.02 a barrel....
...Brent crude settled at $78.79 a barrel, down 1.3 per cent, and US West Texas Intermediate down 1.6 per cent in late trade at $70.67....
...Brent, the international benchmark, touched $74.75 a barrel on Thursday — the highest since 2014....
...Oil prices moved higher in choppy trading, with Brent crude settling at $79.28 a barrel, up 1.1 per cent, after hitting $79.47 in the previous session, the highest in almost four years....
...FastFT reports specialist fashion retailer N Brown relied on its financial services business to maintain its profits in the the final quarter of 2017, as higher advertising costs drove down margins on its...
...Brent settled at $54.27 a barrel, up 0.8 per cent. It touched $54.87 on Friday....
...Commodities By contrast, energy stocks powered ahead as Brent oil settled at a five-month high of $56.86 a barrel, up 0.8 per cent on the day and 2.2 per cent on the week....
...It has announced a fully funded exploration programme for this year and plans to drill three wells on its Platanillo N sands....
...(To be strictly accurate, when the US tightened sanctions on Iran in 2011-12, Brent crude peaked at about $128 a barrel, so it seems the governor was exaggerating to make his point.)...
...Sushma U N and Nupur Anand reported for Quartz on how “cheap renewable energy is killing India’s coal-based power plants”....
...Brent, the international crude benchmark, settled 0.1 per cent higher at $53.84 a barrel, having spent much of the session in negative territory....
...(Jonathan Ford) Carillion puts outsourcers’ accounting practices into spotlight “If Carillion was a bricks n’mortar building rather than a bricks n’mortar business employing 43,000 workers it would be rubble...
...Oil markets had another volatile session, with Brent reaching a high of $53.64 a barrel before retreating to settle 1.5 per cent lower at $51.90....
...Hedge funds have placed a record bet that Brent crude’s near-35 per cent rally over the past six months will continue into the new year, with protests in Iran stoking buying....
...Apres un recent trading update that was more zut alors than très bien, ce n’est pas un surprise that Kingfisher’s half year numbers look un peu disappointing....
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