Oil punches through $54 US a barrel
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TORONTO - Oil prices broke through another new record, passing the $54-per-barrel mark on Tuesday. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, the price for the November contract for light sweet crude stood at $54.
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CRUDE oil prices surged past US$50 a barrel for the first time yesterday to a new record high, raising concerns that higher energy costs could slow the global economy next year.
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OIL&#39;S RECORD-breaking rally took US crude over US$52 a barrel yesterday fuelled by the impact of Hurricane Ivan on US winter inventories.
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Oil prices surpassed $54 a barrel Tuesday due to nagging concerns in the market that the global supply buffer is too thin to handle a significant output disruption.
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US oil prices held above $46 a barrel on Tuesday on worries of a major supply disruption at a time when producers are pumping at full tilt to meet strong demand.
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World oil prices ruptured fresh records on Tuesday, as US light crude punched through the $50 a barrel mark. US light crude leapt to $50.
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Oil prices have surged to two-week highs following news that supplies in the US are tightening. In New York on Thursday, the cost of a barrel of oil rose almost $2 to $44.
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NYMEX crude kept close to record  highs near $54 early on Tuesday as global oil supplies remained  hounded by disruptions, magnifying concerns over U.S. heating  oil stocks ahead of the winter, traders said.
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Oil prices have hit a new record near $51 a barrel as a prolonged US production outage following Hurricane Ivan attracted fresh speculative buying.
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NEW YORK -- Crude oil futures rallied late yesterday to a new high of $54.93 US, a day after a decline in the US inventory of heating oil roiled a market already on edge over tight supplies, high demand and unrest among key producers.
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LONDON : World oil prices stormed above 54 US dollars for the first time Tuesday as strikes in Nigeria and Norway raised worries about possible supply shortages during the northern hemisphere winter.
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Oil prices pushed through new highs above 55 US dollars a barrel Monday amid concerns over high demand and tight supplies ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
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Oil prices set new record highs above  $54 a barrel for U.S. crude Tuesday, with global supplies  hounded by outages that are thwarting efforts to build winter  heating oil inventories.
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Oil prices have surged past a record $55 per a barrel in Asian trade, amid concerns over winter fuel supplies. The price of crude for November delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $55.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) -- Crude-oil futures climbed back toward $54 a barrel, with traders eagerly awaiting weekly petroleum data to find out how the recovery in the Gulf of Mexico has affected US oil and natural-gas inventories.
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Singapore - Crude oil prices breached the $54 mark on Tuesday to reach a new all-time high, fueled by continuing worries over supply in Nigeria and reduced output in the hurricane-hobbled Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil prices rebounded to &#36;54 a barrel on Thursday ahead of U.S. inventory data expected to show tight heating fuel stocks ahead of winter.