Related News
Oil moves up a little
Source: Agencies |
October 26, 2012, Friday
|
Online Edition
Online Edition
IT wasn't a convincing move higher, but oil managed to rise yesterday for the first time in six days.
Benchmark oil gained 32 cents to finish at US$86.05 a barrel in New York. The price had dropped US$6.37 a barrel, or 7 percent, over the previous five trading sessions.
Brent crude added 64 cents to end at US$108.49 a barrel in London.
The market may have been biding time ahead of today's report on gross domestic product. Analysts are estimating that the US economy grew 1.8 percent in the third quarter. Any reading above that could spark a rise in oil to the US$87-US$88 a barrel level, said Jim Ritterbusch of Ritterbusch and Associates.
In other energy futures trading in New York:
- Natural gas prices fell 1.6 cents to finish at US$3.434 per 1,000 cubic feet after the government said supplies of the fuel rose last week.
- Wholesale gasoline rose 7.34 cents, nearly 3 percent, to end at US$2.676 a gallon. Gasoline futures had dropped about 12 percent over a two-week period.
- Heating oil rose 2.3 cents to finish at US$3.062 a gallon.
Benchmark oil gained 32 cents to finish at US$86.05 a barrel in New York. The price had dropped US$6.37 a barrel, or 7 percent, over the previous five trading sessions.
Brent crude added 64 cents to end at US$108.49 a barrel in London.
The market may have been biding time ahead of today's report on gross domestic product. Analysts are estimating that the US economy grew 1.8 percent in the third quarter. Any reading above that could spark a rise in oil to the US$87-US$88 a barrel level, said Jim Ritterbusch of Ritterbusch and Associates.
In other energy futures trading in New York:
- Natural gas prices fell 1.6 cents to finish at US$3.434 per 1,000 cubic feet after the government said supplies of the fuel rose last week.
- Wholesale gasoline rose 7.34 cents, nearly 3 percent, to end at US$2.676 a gallon. Gasoline futures had dropped about 12 percent over a two-week period.
- Heating oil rose 2.3 cents to finish at US$3.062 a gallon.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
