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...The price Russia is getting for its oil is still below Brent, the crude benchmark which averaged $89 a barrel in October....
...International benchmark Brent was down 4.6 per cent, to $73.54 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, fell 4.4 per cent, to $69.46....
...“The forward outlook is extraordinarily positive,” said Jeffrey Currie, global head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs....
...The mounting tensions helped to propel Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, to a high of $99.50 a barrel on Tuesday as traders also grappled with the possibility of disrupted supply from Russia....
...The former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein is accused of grooming underage girls for sex. Maxwell, 59, has repeatedly denied the charges....
...This is worse than my worst expectations of this jobs print,” said Jeffrey Schulze, investment strategist at ClearBridge Investments in New York....
...Who cares if many of her male co-stars were charisma-light troupers who crisped in the blaze from Davis (Franchot Tone, George Brent, Gary Merrill)?...
...The auction, which Ben Jeffrey at BMO Capital Markets characterised as “weak”, follows a spate of large Treasury sales that have captivated investors....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, is up more than two-thirds since the end of October to $63 a barrel, driven by vaccine optimism and production cuts by leading exporters....
...West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, rose 5 per cent to $20.75 a barrel while Brent crude, the international benchmark, ticked higher by 4.4 per cent to $27.61....
...Short-term funding markets continued to show strains, however, and oil fell again, with Brent crude trading at $28.65 a barrel....
...“We believe that the current risk premium embedded in Brent prices is already elevated, with an actual supply disruption now necessary to sustain oil prices,” said Jeffrey Currie, global head of commodities...
...Brent crude, the international marker, fell more than 10 per cent to just below $30 a barrel, breaching that level for the first time in four years....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, settled 0.2 per cent higher at $27.03 a barrel....
...Contracts at the new exchange will be cleared at ICE Clear Europe, alongside other contracts such as ICE Brent....
...Frank has a longstanding relationship with Allergan chief executive Brent Saunders, sources told DD....
...Meanwhile, Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, rose more than 1 per cent on Monday on the back of heightened political tension in the Middle East....
...King & Spalding has hired intellectual property lawyer Brent Ray as a partner in the law firm’s trial and global disputes practice in Chicago. Ray was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis....
...Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief investment officer of DoubleLine Capital known as Wall Street’s “bond king”, also said the Fed should not raise rates this week....
...After shutting down the IPE’s floor in 2005, volumes in flagship crude oil contract Brent have grown eightfold....
...Jeffrey Sprecher, chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, which lists Brent futures, said in comments last autumn that open interest was a “key indication of where the commercial participation is”....
...Portfolio manager Jeffrey Sherman is quick to reply when asked how much he reacts to oil inventory readings: “Zero. We are more of a quantitative system trader,” he says....
...Expectations of increased production from Opec and Russia on Friday drove Brent crude down to its lowest level since early May, below $74 a barrel....
...And Jeffrey Leiden, chief executive of Vertex, a large biotech group focused on cystic fibrosis, linked the Allergan case to the wider debate over pricing....
...Jeffrey Ball in Fortune had a great piece on Royal Dutch Shell’s attempt to remake itself for a world of low oil prices....
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