Web site error rocks global oil markets
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World oil prices jumped briefly on  Wednesday after a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the  No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an erroneous story about a  refinery fire on its Web site.
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U.S. News & World Report - If you write about energy, apparently nothing can fill up your E-mail inbox like oil briefly hitting the $100-per-barrel mark for the first time. Here is a sampling of the reactions to the crude oil price run-up that I've been urged to note:
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With the US presidential elections approaching, world oil prices appear to be going down. New York&#39;s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, fell 26 cents to 49.
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Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on  Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil  stocks in the midst of an arctic cold blast in the Northeast,  the world's largest heating oil market.
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A leading sports gambling Web site said Friday it has expanded into the energy arena, opening up betting on how high crude prices will go.
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Oil prices have jumped nearly $2 a barrel on news of bombings in Saudi Arabia and tighter US fuel supplies. Crude for February delivery rose $1.87 to settle at $43.64 cents a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Wednesday.
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Oil prices soared to new highs on both sides of the Atlantic today as traders fretted over increasingly short supplies. The cost of crude in New York broke through the
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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1015 GMT (Dow Jones) LONDON--European stocks higher driven by gains for oils and mining stocks. Trader says expiration of derivatives contracts or &quot;triple witching&quot; not having major impact.
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Prices for oil and natural gas hit records in 2004, and energy mutual funds did almost as well. They were No. 2 for the industry, behind Latin American funds.
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Investor's Business Daily - Nymex crude prices rose 87 cents to $75.92 a barrel, the highest close in nearly 11 months. Production woes in Angola and China&#39;s strong economic growth fueled gains. Brent crude rose 91 cents to $77.67 a barrel, also an 11-month high. The Int&#39;l Energy Agency said global oil demand will rise 2.5% next year.
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Oil prices jumped more than a dollar on  Thursday after the International Energy Agency warned that  faster-than-expected demand and disappointing world production  growth could put world supplies under strain.
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Corrects reference to world's fifth-largest oil producer in 2nd paragraph
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Crude oil futures prices fell around the globe yesterday following a steep run-up on Friday that was prompted by persistent concerns about winter fuel supplies.
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As stock markets plunged on Tuesday, some online brokerage companies couldn't keep up with their customers' clicks.
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An ad snafu prevents a lot of you from being able to read our site today. Wired News apologizes for the screw-up.
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World oil prices have shot to record highs as concern grows about even more expensive fuel at the petrol pumps. In London, Brent North Sea crude oil for delivery in November surpassed $50 a barrel for the first time in the contract&#39;s 16-year history.