China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is hoping its new asphalt futures contract -- to be launched next month -- will revive interest in oil trading on the bourse, after activity on its fuel oil contract fizzled out, Zhang Zheng, SHFE's ...
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Crude oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday as a pipeline shutdown in Alberta, Canada, and escalating tensions in the Middle East lent the complex a bullish note, amid rising equities markets. NYMEX August crude settled 14 cents ...
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Hints that the Federal Reserve could pull back on its easing efforts later this year sent stocks broadly lower, with high-dividend-yielding stock sectors leading declines. After falling modestly in the initial minutes following the ...
Oil futures accelerated a bullish climb shortly ahead of the 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) NYMEX market settle to close Thursday sharply higher amid rising equities and a weaker dollar. ICE July Brent expired up 76 cents at $104.25/b, after ...
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The price spread between Asian styrene monomer and petrochemical feedstock naphtha hit an eight-year high of $819.90/mt Wednesday on short covering amid low spot inventory in China, Platts data showed. SM prices jumped $10.50/mt day on ...
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Jet fuel differentials firmed to end a week that saw production and demand exactly matched in the US, just not in the Chicago market, with its world-high outright prices. Platts assessed Chicago unchanged at NYMEX June heating oil futures ...
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Oil futures closed out the week in higher territory Friday, boosted by a strong equities performance even as the US Dollar Index climbed to a 34-month high. NYMEX June crude settled 86 cents higher at $96.02/b, after ranging from a low of ...
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Oil futures closed US trading above Friday's settles Monday, after driving higher shortly ahead of the 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) NYMEX market settle on geopolitical concerns arising out of the escalating conflict in Syria. NYMEX June crude ...
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US stocks ended a tumultuous day with strong gains after a false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged Tuesday ...
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US stocks started the second quarter down, pressured by disappointing manufacturing data, after the Dow industrials and S&P500 capped off the first quarter with records. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 5.69 points, or less than ...
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NYMEX May crude settled 16 cents lower at $97.07/b on Monday, as the complex came under pressure from a combination of weaker-than-expected US manufacturing data and the closure of ExxonMobil's 96,000 b/d Pegasus crude pipeline on Friday. ...
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Distillate futures closed US trading sharply higher Wednesday, holding onto boosts seen in the wake of an unexpectedly bullish inventory report released in the morning by the Energy Information Administration. NYMEX April heating oil ...
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Oil futures settled higher Wednesday, partially rebounding from Tuesday's sharp selloff on uncertainty in Cyprus, after weekly inventory data from the US Energy Information Administration proved to be unexpectedly bullish. NYMEX April ...
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Blue chips continued to climb to new heights, pushing beyond the record levels reached in yesterday's rally after a better-than-expected reading on the labour market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 42.47 points, or 0.3 per cent, ...
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Oil futures settled lower Monday after extending an overnight slide that saw the front-month NYMEX crude contract trade below $90/barrel for the first time since December 26. NYMEX April crude settled 56 cents lower at $90.12/b, while ICE ...
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