Oil steadies near $100
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Oil held near its lifetime high of $100 a barrel on Thursday, fuelled by expectations of another fall in U.S. fuel stocks and a struggling dollar.
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Oil prices steadied above &#36;48 a barrel on Wednesday as a cold snap in the U.S. Northeast overshadowed an expected build in crude and product inventories.
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U.S. crude oil futures hit a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday, surging more than $4 as violence in OPEC members Nigeria and Algeria combined with a weak dollar and a cold snap to boost crude futures.
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Oil prices inched closer to $50 a barrel Thursday even as the Bush administration considered tapping the nation&#39;s emergency stockpile of crude on behalf of refiners whose supply was disrupted by Hurricane Ivan.
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Oil prices pulled further back from the brink of $100 a barrel on Thursday after fresh signs of weak U.S. oil demand and a Wall Street slump fuelled profit-taking from a near 40 percent rally in under three months.
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Oil prices steadied on Friday after a  five percent surge on Thursday as OPEC producers signaled their  readiness to support prices by cutting supply.
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Oil held firm within sight of its new $90 high on Friday as the U.S. dollar plumbed new lows and pre-winter fuel stocks languished below norms, lending support to an over 13 percent surge in under two weeks.
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Oil prices held steady on Thursday as data showing stubbornly low U.S. heating fuel supplies ahead of winter stemmed a rout of nearly &#36;10 since late October.
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Oil  prices ease after hitting $100 a barrel as the weak dollar and violence in Nigeria and Algeria boost prices.
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NEW YORK - Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, holding Monday&#39;s losses as forecasts for a swift end to this week&#39;s US cold snap eased worries over thin fuel stocks in the world&#39;s biggest energy consumer.
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Oil prices held steady on Thursday unfazed by a fall in crude supplies in the United States, where stocks are more than 20 million barrels above levels a year ago.
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Oil prices steadied on Tuesday with concerns over gasoline supply in the United States keeping crude above the $70 mark even as fears eased that a cyclone in the Middle East would disrupt production.
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Oil prices held firm on Friday after  leaping almost $2 a day earlier on news U.S. crude stocks sank  to a five-month low last week and distillate fuels barely grew  ahead of winter.
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Oil prices fell Thursday, failing to top the $100-a-barrel mark, despite a larger-than-expected fall in crude inventories.
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Oil stayed near $63 a barrel on   Friday, weighed down by bulging natural gas and heating oil   inventories in the United States and the suspension of an oil   workers' strike in Nigeria.
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Oil steadied near $60 on Friday as investors were cautious on OPEC's resolve to carry out a planned supply cut and fuel inventories swelled in top consumer the United States.
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NEW YORK -- Oil prices soared to $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time ever, reaching that milestone amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will continue to outstrip supplies.